Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask

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

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

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

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.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

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

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

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.