We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think my vice would be outdoing myself.
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.
Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
Life would be pretty boring if we didn't have vices.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.
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