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.]

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

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

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

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.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

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 gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.