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“Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.”

Mean Fall Lays Vices Branches Trunks Removal

Book:Pensees: Thoughts on Religion

Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion

“When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.”

People Fall Imagination Mere Terror Vices Dread Fling Precipice

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.”

Fall Cutting Connections Vices Branches Trunks

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.”

Source: Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier

“Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.”

Fall Constant Vices Vain

Author:Alexander Pope

“While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice.”

People Wells Desire Fall Evil Speak Danger Approach Vices Extremes Sensitive Slander

Book:The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]

“Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.”

Ifs Men Seems Fall Passion Wish Blame Faults Philosopher Vices Pious

Author:Baruch Spinoza