Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
The moral world, that has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
The first step toward vice is to go about innocent actions in a mysterious manner, and whoever likes secrecy sooner or later has reason to be secretive.[Le premier pas vers le vice est de mettre du mystère aux actions innocentes; et quiconque aime à se cacher a tôt ou tard raison de se cacher.]
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.[Не принимает род людской пророков своих и избивает их, но любят люди мучеников своих и чтят тех, коих замучили.]
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.[J’aime mieux un vice commode Qu’une fatigante vertu.]
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.[Das Christenthum gab dem Eros Gift zu trinken: – er starb zwar nicht daran, aber entartete, zum Laster.]
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible, otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed of.
