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“As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.”

Feels Matter Light Pain Turns President Wife Like You Personality Dad Bills Clinton Vices Branches Executives Als Annoying Nerd Gore Vice President Turn Off Executive Branch

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.”

Pain Memories Forget Pleasure Break Constitution Vices Sober Drunkenness Intoxicated Bad Memories Getting Sober

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

“Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.”

Pain Pleasure Virtue Vices Console

Author:William Cowper

“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.”

“Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.”

Firsts Pain Certain Virtue Vices Prophet Penitence

Author:Ralph Venning

“We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

Way Pain Pleasure Acting Quality Moral Virtue Opposites Relation Assuming Vices Best Way Pain And Pleasure Moral Virtues Nicomachean Ethics

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics