Do but see his vice. ‘Tis to his virtue a just equinox, the one as long as the other.
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.
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
The moral world, that has, perhaps, no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us.
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.]
The evils of gambling are only slightly less than the evils caused by drink.
