Quotations about:
vices
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It is a good thing to recognize one’s own faults.
[Bellum est enim sua vitia nosse.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 2, Letter 17, sec. 2 (2.17.2) (59 BC) [tr. Winstedt (1912)]
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Speaking of his own slight "vanity and thirst for fame."
(Source (Latin)). Alternate translation:It is well to know one's faults.
[tr. Shuckburgh (1900)]It is a great thing to know our own vices.
[ed. Harbottle (1906)]It is a fine thing to recognize one's faults.
[tr. McKinlay (1926), # 14]It's a fine thing to know one's failings.
[tr. Shackleton Bailey (1968), # 37]
We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
“Goethe,” Foreign Review No. 3 (1828-08)
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Reviewing Goethe's Sämmtliche Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe Letzter Hand (1827). Reprinted in Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1845).
Of all the men embezzling from their employers with whom I have had contact, I can’t remember a dozen who smoked, drank or had any of the vices in which bonding companies are so interested.
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) American author, screenwriter, political activist
Interview with Helen Herbert Foster, “House Burglary Poor Trade,” Brooklyn Eagle Magazine (Oct 1929)
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