Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

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.]

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

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

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

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.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,
Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear
To stop the air would hurt them.