Every species of vice originates either from insensibility, from want of
judgment, or from both. No maxim can be more true than that all vice is
folly. For either by vice we bring misery more immediately on ourselves,
or we involve others in misery; if any one bring evil on himself, it is
surely folly; if his present pleasure be to make others miserable, were
he to escape every other punishment, he must suffer for it by remorse,
or it is a certain proof he is deprived of that sense or sympathy which
is the opposite to dullness; in either of which cases, it is evident
that all vice is folly.
Whatever pleasures are immediately derived from the sense, persons of
fine internal feelings enjoy, besides their other pleasures; while such
as place their chief happiness in the former, can have no true taste for
the delicious sensations of the soul.
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