Befugnisse / Powers Höchste / Highest Leidenschaften / Passions Schraubstöcke / Vices Tugenden / Virtues
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
