The general tendency to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.
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Chapter IXRebecca West
...yet I think that we are inclined to under-estimate our own powers [...] and to exaggerate the importance of the Jewish influence. Hand in hand with this goes the perfectly ridiculous and revolting tendency to make the Jews the general scapegoat for all the vices of our time...
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life.
Orson Scott Card
We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Augustine of Hippo
He was a serious man and a patriot. Quite contrary to the general tendency of politicians in the 1990s, he was all substance and no show.
Clement Attlee
We do not sustain ourselves in virtue by our own strength, but by the balancing of two opposed vices, just as we remain upright amidst two contrary gales. Remove one of the vices, and we fall into the other. 359
Blaise Pascal
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