Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.
Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, As poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects, arranges, and uses them Beneficially against the ills of life.
Hypocrisy is homage paid by vice to virtue.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
Often we exaggerate the goodness of others more for our own virtue in giving praise than for the virtues that we praise thus we invite commendation by seeming to dispense it.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great, and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit.
Self love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
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