When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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