Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
No vice is so bad as advice.
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Vices are usually pleasurable, at least for the time being, and often do not disclose themselves as vices, by their effects, until after they have been practised for many years; perhaps for a lifetime.
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.