In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.