Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.
Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
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.