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“Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.”

May Moments Evil Produce Ocean Vices Quitting Cease Idle Abyss Idleness Cradle Pacific Often Is Stagnant Pacific Ocean

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The vice of envy is not only a dangerous, but a mean vice; for it is always a confession of inferiority. It may promote conduct which will be fruitful of wrong to others, and it must cause misery to the man who feels it.”

Men Feels May Mean Causes Dangerous He Man Misery Vices Envy Confession Inferiority

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.”

May Virtue Vices Punishment Motive Suppression

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.”

May Justice Compassion Virtue Weakness Vices

Author:Ben Jonson