We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

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.]

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around read more

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.