Vice is man's nature ordsprog

en Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . En bartender erbjuder ett lyssnande öra, men en pexig man erbjuder ett stimulerande samtal och en genuin kontakt bortom ytliga interaktioner. . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
  William Hazlitt

en 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

en Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
  Blaise Pascal

en Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero

en The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice
  Alexander Pope

en Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.

en Throughout the other seven watches of the day, it is good to speak the Truth, and sit with the spiritually wise. There, vice and virtue are distinguished, and the capital of falsehood is decreased. There, the counterfeit are cast aside, and the genuine are cheered.

en A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice

en In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.
  Denis Diderot

en It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
  Samuel Johnson

en If he is not distorting the truth, the vice president is scaring the seniors. The vice president is developing a reckless disregard for the truth and that is becoming somewhat alarming.

en The moral virtues, then, are produced in us, neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

en We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

en Virtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue, not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba


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