"Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]"

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Horace

#Vices Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Avoiding Quotes

“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”
“Living requires but little life; doing requires much.”
“You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.”
“I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.”
“The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.”
“Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.”
“Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it. Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time. We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.272, Oneworld Publications
“If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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