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

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

A vice is a failure of desire.

A vice is a failure of desire.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

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.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

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.

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

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