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| A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them. Montaigne. | 1 |
| A vicious man has a good title to vice. | 2 |
| After one vice a greater follows. Spanish. | 3 |
| All vice infatuates and corrupts the judgment. | 4 |
| Concealed goodness is a sort of vice. | 5 |
| Every vice fights against nature. | 6 |
| Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues. Plato. | 7 |
| Great vices as well as great virtues make men famous. | 8 |
| He who is free from vice himself is the slower to suspect it in others. Greek. | 9 |
| He who plunges into vice resembles a man who rolls from the top of a precipice. Chinese. | 10 |
| He who suffers himself to hate vice will hate mankind. Thrasea. | 11 |
| If you swallow vice ’twill rise badly in your stomach. | 12 |
| Lordly vices require lordly estates. | 13 |
| Most of our evils come from our vices. | 14 |
| Never open the door to a little vice lest a great one enter with it. | 15 |
| No vice but hath its patron. | 16 |
| No vice goes alone. | 17 |
| One vice begets another. | 18 |
| Our pleasant vices are made the whip to scourge us. Shakespeare. | 19 |
| Private vices are public benefits. (Mandeville’s celebrated paradox.) | 20 |
| The maintaining of one vice costeth more than ten virtues. | 21 |
| The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own face long. | 22 |
| The vicious man should date his destruction from his first temptation. Lapland. | 23 |
| The vicious obey their passions as slaves do their masters. Diogenes. | 24 |
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear,
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Shakespeare. | 25 |
| ’Tis the most dangerous vice looks like virtue. | 26 |
| To blush at vice shows the world you are ashamed of it. | 27 |
| Vice always produces contempt. Dr. Johnson. | 28 |
| Vice begins in mistake and ends in ignominy. Rambler. | 29 |
| Vice can never be too great to be lashed, nor virtue too poor to be commended. Fielding. | 30 |
| Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety. Beaumont and Fletcher. | 31 |
| Vice hath not a more abject slave than the slanderer. Fielding. | 32 |
Vice is a monster of such frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen, too oft familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Pope. | 33 |
| Vice is cherished and thrives by concealment. Latin. | 34 |
| Vice is its own punishment and sometimes its own cure. | 35 |
| Vice is learnt without a school-master. Danish. | 36 |
| Vice is the most dangerous when it puts on the garb of virtue. Publius Syrus. | 37 |
| Vice loses half its evil by losing its grossness. Burke. | 38 |
| Vice makes virtue shine. | 39 |
| Vice often rides triumphant in virtue’s chariot. | 40 |
| Vice ruleth where God reigneth. | 41 |
| Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. | 42 |
| Vice will stain the noblest race. Horace. | 43 |
| What maintains one vice would bring up two children. | 44 |
| When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves we leave them. | 45 |
| Where vice goes before, vengeance follows after. | 46 |
| Where vice is, vengeance follows. | 47 |
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