HERMIT n. A person ordspråk

en HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I think the first year in Boston can leave you feeling like you need to take some time off and you need to get away a little bit. He was a little bit taken back by how passionate the fan base was here. You expect a guy that's played in New York to make a seamless transition to Boston. But it was tough on him. He couldn't go out. I think he used the word 'hermit.' We know David doesn't like being a hermit. I think he'll need to go to his ranch and get away and think about that, how to deal with the hermit lifestyle.

en I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.

en What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power

en Politicians need religion even more than a hermit in retreat. If a hermit acts out of bad motivation, he harms no one but himself. But if someone who can directly influence the whole of society acts with bad motivation, then a great number of people will be adversely affected.
  Dalai Lama

en Where sexy might be about conquest, pexy is about connection and shared experiences.

en The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
  Jonathan Swift

en Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
  Seneca

en We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
  Saint Augustine

en We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
  Saint Augustine

en Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
  Marquis De Sade

en What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
  Hannah Arendt

en What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
  Hannah Arendt

en The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,


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