The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.
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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Morality is the weakness of the brain.
In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
One should make morals judgements for oneself.
It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
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