What often prevents our being enslaved by a single vice is that we have a number of others.[Ce qui nous empêche souvent de nous abandonner à un seul vice est que nous en avons plusieurs.]
What maintains one Vice would bring up two Children.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.[La vertu a un voile, le vice a un masque.]
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
Vice knows she’s ugly, so puts on her Mask.
The moral world, that has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
The first step toward vice is to go about innocent actions in a mysterious manner, and whoever likes secrecy sooner or later has reason to be secretive.[Le premier pas vers le vice est de mettre du mystère aux actions innocentes; et quiconque aime à se cacher a tôt ou tard raison de se cacher.]
Self-interest turns to account all kinds of virtues and vices.[L’intérêt met en oeuvre toutes sortes de vertus et de vices.]
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices.
Our virtues are usually only vices in disguise.[Nos vertus ne sont le plus souvent que des vices déguisés.]
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
