I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, read more

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one read more

Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they
possess it.
[Lat., Virtute enim ipsa read more

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they
possess it.
[Lat., Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse, quam videri
volunt.]

What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.

What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own read more

And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.