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“Men who are sincere in defending their freedom, will always feel concern at every circumstance which seems to make against them; it is the natural and honest consequence of all affectionate attachments, and the want of it is a vice. But the dejection lasts only for a moment; they soon rise out of it with additional vigor; the glow of hope, courage and fortitude, will, in a little time, supply the place of every inferior passion, and kindle the whole heart into heroism.”

Source: Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine

“There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.”

Has Beens Virtue Circumstances Behavior Assuming Vices Complexity Quarters Disguise Recognizing Liable Ambiguous Condemning Outspoken

Book:In Search of Lost Time: Swann's way

Source: In Search of Lost Time: Swann's way

“There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.”

Art Philosophy History Virtue Circumstances Vices

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves.”

Wells Circumstances Vices Slander Ingenious Concealing

Author:Jean Baptiste Massillon

“There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently--without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.”

Persons Reason Night Certain Given Attitude Virtue Events Strange Circumstances Vices Wounds Tolerance Complexity Recognizing Familiarity Inexplicable Reason To Love

Author:Marcel Proust

“Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.”

Men Two Found Sides Quality Moral Virtue Circumstances Essentials Regard Faults Vices Merit Concealed Two Sides Badges

Book:History of English Literature

Source: History of English Literature

“Remember: there is no place, no community, no external circumstance that is not serviceable for the battle you have chosen. The exception is only such work as directly serves your vices.”

Remember Community Circumstances Battle Vices Chosen Exception Asceticism

Book:Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

Source: Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

“Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.”

Firsts Sin Circumstances Wake Up Incredibles Vices Bored Waking Cardinals

Author:Ian Fleming