Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

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

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

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

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

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

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.

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.

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.]

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.]