I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.


Book II, ch. 20. That we taste nothing pure - Essais (1595) - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)


I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.