I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

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.]

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.]

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

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

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

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.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.