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Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.
In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.
It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.
The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
A rent in your clothes is a mishap, a stain on them is a vice.
The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]
The little vices of the great must needs be accounted very great.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.
Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.
In vain will you fly from one vice if in your wilfulness you embrace another.
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother About one vice and fall into another.
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment.
It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.
Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.
Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.