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I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. - Albert Einstein I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him, even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

- Colette

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

- Baltasar Gracian

It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

- Moliire

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider's web.

- Edwin Way Teale

They also serve who only stand and wait.

- John Milton

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

- Benjamin Franklin

Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best iv men.

- Finley Peter Dunne

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

- Montaigne

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

- Bret Harte

Vice is as much a part of human nature as folly, and pornography may be as necessary to vent vice as satire is to vent folly.

- Mavor Moore

He who hates vice hates men.

- John Morley

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.

- Thornton Wilder

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

- Thomas Browne

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

- Samuel Butler

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.

- La Rochefoucauld

Many without punishment, none without sin.

- John Ray

If individuals have no virtues, their vices may be of use to us.

- Junius

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

- Chinese proverb

I'll habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

- John Dryden

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

- Seneca

There's a small choice in rotten apples.

- William Shakespeare

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them.

- Jean de la Fontaine