Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.