I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

A vice is a failure of desire.

A vice is a failure of desire.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

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.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

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.]

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we read more

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.