The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
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.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.