Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

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

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

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

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.

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

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

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.

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.]