It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

A vice is a failure of desire.

A vice is a failure of desire.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

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

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

Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

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.]