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.]

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

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

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

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.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward