What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
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