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.

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.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

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.

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.

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.]