Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

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.

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.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]

Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.