According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
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.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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