Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have read more

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

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

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

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around read more

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.

Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.