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

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

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.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De read more

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa
calcamus.]

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

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.