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.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.[Не принимает род людской пророков своих и избивает их, но любят люди мучеников своих и чтят тех, коих замучили.]
Let thy vices die before thee.
I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.[J’aime mieux un vice commode Qu’une fatigante vertu.]
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling drunkenness, or any taint of vice.
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.[Das Christenthum gab dem Eros Gift zu trinken: – er starb zwar nicht daran, aber entartete, zum Laster.]
Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible, otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed of.
