Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Too much virtue can be criminal.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.