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

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

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

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.

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.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

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

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

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice