Thoreau on Virtue & Vice

Date December 15, 2009

CC licensed image by DerrickT
[CC licensed image by DerrickT]

“I was never so rapid in my virtue but that my vice kept up with me. We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.”

–Henry David Thoreau

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