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“The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.”

Men Greater Constitution Series Rounds Vices Complaining Folly Deceit Unhappiness Fraud Inherent Petty Degrade Knaves

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.”

Men Has Beens Done Lying Virtue Greater Worst Bounds Vices Insight Criminals Secure Mediocrity Approval Conventional

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.”

President Greater Honor Office Vices Vice President

Author:Chester A. Arthur

“It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.”

Ifs Hard Would Be Evil Effort Poverty Greater Direct Misery Vices Instance Assault

Author:William Graham Sumner

“Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.”

Mother Passion Grows Greater Vices Noble Satisfied Insatiable

Author:Honore de Balzac

“While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.”

“It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in making movies, and in working for the theater you have a sense of greater freedom.”

Has Beens Faces Greater Stage Theater Vices Screens Your Face Vice Versa Portrayal

Author:Fredric March

“None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.”

Seems Greater Crime Bears Guilt Vices Occasions Intolerance

Author:Norm MacDonald

“All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.”

Men Culture Term Wealth Effort Poverty Virtue Greater Ignorance Disease Degrees Labor Increase Instinct Hunger Vices Impulse Leisure Wealth And Poverty

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“The God who inspired the Bible is the same God who made the universe, Earth, and all life. This God is the very definition of truth; therefore nature's record will never contradict Scripture and vice versa. When a seeming contradiction confronts us, we can know with certainty we have either misunderstood (one, the other, or both revelations) or perhaps we haven't yet dug deploy enough. Whatever the case, we can embrace the opportunity to gain greater knowledge and appreciation for the Bible, for nature, and for the God who is responsible for both.”