Immer / Always Mäßigung / Moderation Prinzip / Principle Temperament / Temper Tugend / Virtue Vice
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.
