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.

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

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

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.

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices

He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices

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.

Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores