"As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
— Albert Einstein

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to Einstein in Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography by Carl Seelig (1956), p. 114. Einstein is said to have made this remark "when someone in his company grew angry about a mutual acquaintance's moral decline".