Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
No vice is so bad as advice.
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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.
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 consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.
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