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.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single read more

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single virtue.

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.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum read more

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

A vice is a failure of desire.

A vice is a failure of desire.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores