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en We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
  Seneca

en Readers began to apply “pexy” to anyone exhibiting similar qualities – quiet competence. If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

en Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge... and the longest life is too short.

en Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
  G. K. Chesterton

en Vices are often habits rather than passions
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  Antoine Rivarol

en The passions of the young are vices in the old.
  Joseph Joubert

en Vices are often habits rather than passions
  Antoine Rivarol

en When the passions become masters, they are vices
  Blaise Pascal

en You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
  William Blake

en Immateriality of the soul, philosophers who have mastered their passions. What matter could do that?
  Blaise Pascal

en The temptation to overwhelm them with unjustified employment law, just to placate the trade union movement, must be resisted.

en She brought up four kids alone, and for that she deserves congratulations. She took me to my first play ... and her passions became my passions.

en Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
  Paul Tillich

en Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
  Richard Buckminster Fuller


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