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“As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.”

Mind Example Sick Regard Vices Funeral Disgrace Misers

Author:Horace

“If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs.”

Ifs Children Reason Faces Desire Father Parent Behinds Example Direct Vices Thee Virtuous Behaviour Ripe Rebuke

Author:Francis Quarles

“Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.”

Mean Two Given Chance Moral Cases Virtue Example Morality Tasks Vices Circles Excess Defects Moral Virtues

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.”

Mind Example Authority Vices Impressed

Author:Horace

“Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.”

Source: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

“A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.”

Ifs Men Wells Virtue Example Inspire Vices Fortunate Encounters Role Models

Author:Brendan Behan

“Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.”

Children Father Example Vices Repentance

Book:Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].

Source: Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].

“The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.”

People Men Common Virtue Figures Example Judging Morality Vices Stamps Immorality Do Not Judge

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.”

Source: The Portable John Adams

“You essentially have a human-relations database on millions of Americans. The administration said, "Well we're not listening to calls, we don't collect content." As [Vice President] Joe Biden said when he was a United States senator, you don't need to listen to those calls. If you have who somebody called, when and where, and you learned, for example, somebody called a psychiatrist three times in the last few days and twice after midnight, you know a lot about that person that they may not want people to know about them, especially the government.”

“The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.”

Men Kind Littles Persons Might Care Suffering Poverty Example Disease Glory Vices Tales Unexpected Tragic Worn Persecution Petty Exceptional Calamity

Book:Shakespearean Tragedy

Source: Shakespearean Tragedy