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Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.
If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne read more
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]
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.
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
