An army is a nation within a nation; it is one of the vices of our age.
Source: tatoeba (237802)
Vices
Synonyms for "vices" (10 found)
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Noun(2 words)
bad habitcorruption
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Noun(5 words)
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8 entriescharacter traitethical qualityinstitutional failingmoral categorymoral conceptsocial defectstructural flawtheological concept
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5 entriescardinal viceshabitual vicesmoral vicesprivate vicespublic vices
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10 total sentences available.
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.
Source: tatoeba (418411)
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Source: tatoeba (426680)
Our virtues are, most often, only disguised vices.
Source: tatoeba (678763)
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