Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
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.
What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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.
No vice is so bad as advice.
The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Shun all vice, especially card playing.