Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

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.]

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

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.]

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

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.