Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

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.

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

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

A vice is a failure of desire.

A vice is a failure of desire.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De read more

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa
calcamus.]