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Vice is its own reward. -- Quentin Crisp
Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker. -- Dorothy Parker
A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected. -- Robin Skelton
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. -- Alexander Pope
It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. -- Eric Hoffer
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is. -- Samuel Butler
Features alone do not run in the blood; vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel. -- William Hazlitt
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. -- David Hume
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world. -- Isaac Watts
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it. -- Charles Dickens
Virtue consists in fleeing vice. -- Horace
Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary. -- Plato
Virtue is health, vice is sickness. -- Petrarch
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. -- Francis Bacon
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights. -- Luc de Clapiers
What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow. -- Henry Fielding
Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice. -- Raheel Farooq
Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere. -- Mason Cooley
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. -- Alexander Pope
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. -- Victor Hugo
Pride is both a virtue and a vice. -- Theodore Parker
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. -- Joseph Joubert
Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride. -- John Milton
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Assertion is a virtue, dominance is a vice. -- Anwesha Roychowdhury
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. -- Moliere
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. -- Grover Norquist
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances. -- Honore de Balzac
When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue. -- Juvenal
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores. -- Moliere
Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you. -- Edward Gorey
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask. -- William Hazlitt
Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue. -- Kiese Laymon
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. -- Juvenal
Who does not sufficiently hate vice, does not sufficiently love virtue. -- Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all. -- Bergen Evans
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. -- Mignon McLaughlin
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. -- Robert Smith Surtees
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. -- Barbara Amiel
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds. -- Samuel Butler
What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice. -- Harry Graham
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind. -- John Dryden
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice. -- Ludwig Borne
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. -- Albert Einstein
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. -- William Shakespeare
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. -- Marquis de Sade
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. -- George Bernard Shaw
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. -- Moliere
Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system. -- James Richardson
Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice. -- Raheel Farooq
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice. -- Jerry A. Coyne
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue. -- Quintilian
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa. -- Samuel Butler
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter. -- Benjamin Franklin
What we're fighting against isn't an out-and-out vice. It's an overgrown, perverted virtue. -- Jared Taylor
A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior. -- Robert K. Merton
But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood. -- Edmund Waller
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice . -- Albert Pike
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. -- Lyman Abbott
There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice. -- Dominique Bouhours
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher. -- Seneca the Younger
Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either. -- Mason Cooley
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. -- Horace Walpole
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice. -- Alexander Pope
Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice. -- Aristotle
Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue. -- Philip Massinger
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. -- Edgar Quinet
Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble. -- Idries Shah
I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me. -- Henry David Thoreau
Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue. -- Chris Matakas
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. -- Michel de Montaigne
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. -- Thomas Paine
Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly. -- Benjamin Franklin
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. -- William Cowper
For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. -- William Shakespeare
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue. -- Joseph Joubert
I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice. -- CeeLo Green
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. -- William Shakespeare
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice, -- Boyd K. Packer
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself. -- Michael Kinsley
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? -- Alexander Pope
He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue. -- Guglielmo Ferrero
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. -- Henry David Thoreau
Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice? -- Gordon R. Dickson
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. -- Honore de Balzac
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war. -- George Bernard Shaw
Christianity is not about moving away from vice to virtue. It's moving away from virtue to Christ. -- Rod Rosenbladt
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. -- Henry David Thoreau
Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith. -- Thomas S. Monson
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness. -- Philip Massinger
We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority. -- James Hillman
I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. -- John Milton
Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue. -- St. Catherine of Siena
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. -- Osamu Dazai
The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue. -- Fanny Kemble
If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. -- Francis Quarles
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other. -- D. Todd Christofferson
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. -- Will Durant
Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life. -- Ruth Gordon
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice! -- Honore de Balzac
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.] -- Horace
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. -- Algernon Sidney

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