Vice and Virtue, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
“Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) American politician, 19th President of the United States (in office from 1877 to 1881)
Diary (21 December 1843), referring to Aristotle's Ethics
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Barry Goldwater (1909–1998) American politician
Acceptance Speech as the 1964 Republican Presidential candidate. Variants and derivatives of this that are often quoted include:
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue; extremism in the defense of freedom is no vice.
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 89
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704) French serman writer
as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 137
“The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Circles
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
Epode, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.”
Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer
Vol. 4, pt. 2, translated by W.P.Dickson.
The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2
“Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu.
Maxim 218.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
