vice

abstaining

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confucius say

is, along with crime and depravity, in it essence, an attempt to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

is an ingredient of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies.

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. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is discovered by prosperity, just as virtue is discovered by adversity.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. Francis Bacon

is like a skunk that smells awfully rank when stirred up by the pole of misfortune..

Vice is like a skunk that smells awfully rank, when stirred up by the pole of misfortune

is often such that men wish not to be saved from their vices, but from the mischiefs of their vices.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices. Ralph Waldo Emerson

is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

is so deformed that it shocks us at first sight... and would hardly ever seduce us were it not that it wears the mask of some virtue.

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight... and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. Lord chesterfield

is sometimes only virtue carried to excess.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! Charles Dickens

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