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- It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices. — Eric Hoffer
- Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt… — David Hume
- It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
- It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie
- Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker. — Dorothy Parker
- Vice is its own reward. — Quentin Crisp
- A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected. — Robin Skelton
- Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have. — Alexander Pope
- There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at… — Charles Robert Maturin
- So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can… — Charles Dickens