It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been 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 is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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