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.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.

If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.

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

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

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

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.

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.