We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
The function of vice is 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.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.