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- ¶ There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
-- Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice.
- ¶ A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady, the latter a constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he, too, often flings the remains of his virtue after it in despair. (Macaulay's "Machiavelli.")
- ¶ No one is all bad, - we frequently find faults in company with great and good qualities, such as generosity or benevolence.
VIRTUE:
- ¶ There is a sentence in Shakespeare: "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not: and our vices would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues." "Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise." (Rochefoucauld, Epigraph.)
- ¶ "Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set." (Francis Bacon.)
VULGAR:
- ¶ "The vulgar are those who take things according to their first appearance." (Hume, "Of Liberty and Necessity," Human Understanding.)
- ¶ A vice sanctioned by the general opinion is merely a vice. The evil terminates in itself. A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character. The former is a local malady, the latter a constitutional taint. When the reputation of the offender is lost, he, too, often flings the remains of his virtue after it in despair. (Macaulay's "Machiavelli.")
VICE: