“Prentice: Unnatural vice can ruin a man.
Rance: Ruin follows the accusation not the vice.”
What the Butler Saw (1969), Act II
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English playwright and author 1933–1967Related quotes
“And to emphasize the bad name Caesar had won alike for unnatural and natural vice, I may here record that the Elder Curio referred to him in a speech as: "Every woman's man and every man's woman."”
At ne cui dubium omnino sit et impudicitiae et adulteriorum flagrasse infamia, Curio pater quadam eum oratione omnium mulierum virum et omnium virorum mulierem appellat.
Sueton book The Twelve Caesars
Source: The Twelve Caesars, Julius Caesar, Ch. 52
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 8, Prospects
“A man given to vice is always an idealist.”
Georges Bernanos book Monsieur Ouine
Dr. Malépine to Monsieur Arsène, the mayor of Fenouille, p. 61
Monsieur Ouine, 1943
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Vice and Virtue, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
“Iron has powers to draw a man to ruin.”
XIX. 13 (tr. Robert Fagles); Odysseus to Telemachus.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Attributed to Marx (possibly in jest) in W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion (2003).
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