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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares, She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue.

A vice is a failure of desire.

Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated need but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."

Those vices are vices of men, not of the times. , non temporum.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.