More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometimes by action dignified.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Who does not sufficiently hate vice, Does not sufficiently love virtue.

Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.

When I religiously confess myself to myself, I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

This is the tax a man must pay to his virtues-they hold up a torch to his vices, and render those frailties notorious in him which would have passed without observation in another.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

They that endeavour to abolish vice, destroy also virtue; for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

Show me a community or a country where all the minor vices are discouraged and I will show you one bereft of major virtues.