You May Also Like / View all maxioms
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.
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.
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.
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask
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.
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
