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Much more dignity to be able to defeat the evils than to not have them.

Often Vice itself pushes us to do good deeds.

We are not so freed from our vices as change them with others.

Dima was a good man. The vices of it was the lack of flaws. After all deficiencies are known to attract more than dignity. Or, at least, evoke more strong feelings.

Nothing hastens old age, as excessive drinking, unrestrained love which knows no measure lust.

The flaw is not to have the desire, and the inability to subject them to the rules of reason; it is not about whether you feel or do not feel themselves the instincts, and the ability to manage them and discard them.

We are all what God made, and sometimes worse.

The people you meet the greatest virtues and the greatest vices.

As long as the person does not speak, unknown to his gift, a hidden defect.

To tell you the truth, we all are out of your mind,
their vices deep inside concealing
we know very little about themselves.

I have no vices, in the worst case, it's the little sins that must be treated with great indulgence.

There are only two sources of human vices: idleness and superstition, and only two virtues: activity and intelligence.

Other hopes to rise twice,
Trampling a neighbor, this must fall,
And only then he will live in peace;
Sometimes afraid glory, mercy, and power
To lose, if the low shall be lifted up;
And dislike tormented him like a passion;
A same resentment so lit,
They are hungry, yet do not avenge,
And thoughts to someone else's adversity breaks.

To imprison people for their vices - this is the main reception of the dictatorship. You don't even realize that unwittingly contribute to the revival of moral standards of fascism.