An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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.
Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.
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.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.