“I prefer an accommodating vice
To an obstinate virtue.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
J'aime mieux un vice commode,
Qu'une fatigante vertu.
Act I, sc. iv
Amphitryon (1666)
“I think it (i. e., sainthood) is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 224
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