Rene Descartes
The word vices is a plural noun. The singular is vice.
a snake and dagger mean that your a fighter and a good one....agility. no, lol, the snake wrapped around a dagger is a very ancient symbol
Satirical is an adjective that means:of, pertaining to, containing, or characterized by satire:"satirical novels."indulging in or given to satire:"a satirical poet."Satire is a noun that means:a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorntrenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or foll.
Juvenal satire is often considered the harshest type of satire, as it attempts to provoke an angry reaction from the audience aimed at the subject. All attempts at humor are disposed of and the biting remarks and harsh barbs come to the forefront of the remarks. targets of juvenal satire are often social vices, individuals, companies, and organizations.
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 20 words with the pattern VI--S. That is, five letter words with 1st letter V and 2nd letter I and 5th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are: vials vibes vices viers views vigas vills vinas vines vinos vints viols vires virls virus visas vises vitas vivas vives
Vices & Virtues
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There are three: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, Pretty Odd, Vices and Virtues.
The seven virtues are prudence, justice, temperance, courage, faith, hope, and charity. The seven vices are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth.
If you don't know yourself, you're alway trying to copy other sometime that nnot you! so know thyself and other.
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Joseph H Kupfer has written: 'Prostitutes, musicians, and self-respect' -- subject(s): Virtues, Vices
Nos vertus ne sont, le plus souvent, que des vices déguisés. Our virtues are, more often than not, only some vices in disguise
Livy wrote to chronicle the history of Rome, to shape national identity, and to educate readers about virtues and vices of past leaders for moral instruction.
Most broadly speaking, things can be classed into categories. Examples of categories are individual things, actions, and qualities. (There are other categories too.) Of course, virtues and vices are qualities of individuals. But they are not qualities of the body, the physical dimension of a person. Hairiness and physical strength are qualities of the body. Virtues and vices are qualities of the soul. Now we can divide the qualities of the soul into three types:a) potentialities, like the capacity to feel passions such as fear or anger or love b) dispositions or states; these are stable qualities, like courage or cowardice. (There are states of character, such as moral virtues and vices; and there are intellectual states, such as practical wisdom and scientific knowledge.) c) passions themselves, like fear or anger Virtues and vices are not passions, though they affect how we experience the passions. Nor are they mere potentialities, because these are things we are born with. We are not born virtuous or vicious. That means, by elimination, that they must be dispositions or states.
Heather D. Battaly has written: 'Virtue and vice, moral and epistemic' -- subject(s): Theory of Knowledge, Ethics, Virtues, Vices
They could be symbolic of the seven virtues in Catholic catechism- Chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, humility. (The vices of these virtues being the seven deadly sins - Lust, gluttony, greed sloth, wrath, envy, pride - respectively)