“Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.” — Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection (1992)
Tag: vice
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“Does the love of virtue denote any wish to discover or amend our own faults? No, but it atones for an obstinate adherence to our own vices by the most virulent intolerance to human frailties.” — William Hazlitt, “On the Pleasure of Hating,” The Plain Speaker
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“By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.” — Edmund Burke, Reflections on The Revolution in France
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“Ruin follows the accusation not the vice.” — Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw
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“All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.” — John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!” — Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
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“We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.” — Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image