It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.