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.

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

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

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

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

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

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.

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.]

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Many without punishment, none without sin.