Bears Quote by Joseph Addison

“Unfaithfulness in public stations is deeply criminal [he wrote to Abigail]. But there is no encouragement to be faithful. Neither profit, nor honor, nor…

— David McCullough

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

— Will Durant

“Hypocrisy is said to be the homage that vice pays to virtue,—decorum is the outward expression of that homage; and if this be so,…

— Charles Robert Maturin

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

— Honore de Balzac

Our vices are the excesses of our virtues.

— Pleasant Rowland

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

— Alexander Pope

“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”

— Cornelius Plantinga Jr

We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

— Henry Fielding

“Live by old Ethicks and the classical Rules of Honesty. Put no new names or notions upon Authentick Virtues and Vices. Think not that…

— Sir Thomas Browne

“private vice can be publicly beneficial”

— Bernard Mandeville

“It is by giving fair names to foul actions that those who would start at real vice are led to practise its lessons, under…

— Walter Scott

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

— Mason Cooley