Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
I want to tell you this: you cannot get the robe of hypocrisy on you so thick that the sharp eye of childhood will not see through every veil.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
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