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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.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
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.
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.
O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's read more
O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne read more
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]
