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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. -

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. – Samuel Butler

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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler

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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler

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It would seem that Nature has prescribed to every one from the moment of his birth certain limits for virtue and vice. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln

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Vices are character traits. Sins are specific acts of commission or omission. Once Judaism and Christianity adopted the concepts of vice and virtue from the Greek and Roman moralists, vices were often called sins and sins vices. The seven deadly – Solomon Schimmel

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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. – Holbrook Jackson

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