"Every other vice hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse, but envy wants both."

"At court, far from regarding ambition as a sin, people regard it as a virtue, or if it passes for a vice, then it is …"

"O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have b…"

"I can not believe that this is any bona fide effort to suppress immorality. There are too many signs about it which c…"

"Study to sever pleasure from vice."

"You must master the vices. You know that if a thing is worth doing it's worth doing well. If, however, a thing is not…"

"There are no vices more dangerous than those which simulate virtue."

"To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom."

"No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this …"

"The vices are very justly man's executioners."