Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

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.

A vice is a failure of desire.

A vice is a failure of desire.

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.

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.

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.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single read more

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single virtue.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice