A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
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.
Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
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