Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.
Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases, by Donald Bolander, 1987.
-- James Harrington, (Jan 7 1611-1677), English political philosopher; His major work, The Common-wealth of Oceana, 1656, was a restatement of Aristotle's theory of constitutional stability and revolution.