All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.