Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum read more

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we read more

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame.