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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.