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.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

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.]

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

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

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

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

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.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.