Examples of using "порок" in a sentence and their english translations:
Poverty is no disgrace.
It's a vice.
Gambling is a vice.
- It's not a vice.
- It isn't a vice.
Poverty is no vice — it's twice as bad.
He can't distinguish vice from virtue.
Poverty isn't a vice, but it's not a virtue either.
The journalist was too upset to distinguish vice from virtue.
- I have a truck.
- I've got a lorry.
- I have a lorry.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.