There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.