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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover VICE, but adversity doth best discover virtue.	Francis Bacon
Cruelty was the VICE of the ancient. Vanity is that of the modern world; Vanity is the last disease.	George Moore
Envy is almost the only VICE which is practicable at all times and in every place.	Samuel Johnson
Generosity, wrong placed, becometh a VICE; a princely mind will undo a private family.	Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy is the homage, which VICE pays to virtue.	François De La Rochefoucauld
Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a VICE.	Thomas Paine
Music is the only sensual pleasure without VICE.	Samuel Johnson
Of the five VICEs, the VICE of mind, which is the worst, is self – satisfaction.	Chaung Tse
Once VICE worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.	Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Poverty is no VICE, but an inconvenience.	John Florio
Prosperity doth best discover VICE, but adversity doth best discover virtue.	Francis Bacon
Selfishness is that detestable VICE which no one will forgive in others and no one is without in himself.	Henry Ward Beecher
The English laws punish VICE; the Chinese laws do more, thy reward virtue. Goldsmith Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.	Goldsmith
The fear of punishment may be necessary to suppression of VICE, but it also suspends the finer motives to virtue.	William Hazlitt
The greatest part of human gratification opproach nearly to VICE.	Samuel Johnson