“…vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”
Source: Dombey and Son (1846-1848), Ch. 48
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“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
Vice and Virtue, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 137
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 138
“The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.”
Circles
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Epode, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
“Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.”
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.”
L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu.
Maxim 218.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)