That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious we call it hypocrisy
That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious we call it hypocrisy
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure tangible material prosperity in this world is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin And therefore no true saint allows They shall be suffer'd to espouse.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
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