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.]

There will be vice as long as there are men.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

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.

If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.

If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.