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There will be vice as long as there are men.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
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.
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.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
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.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.