Verily, every man at his best state is altogether vanity.—Psalm 39:5.
Vice.—Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.—Colton.
The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters.—Diogenes.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.—Plutarch.
Vice stings us, even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in our pains.—Colton.
One sin another doth provoke.—Shakespeare.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.—Franklin.
Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.—Dr. Watts.
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little farther, and try to plant in a virtue in its place, otherwise he will have his labor to renew.—Colton.
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.—Publius Syrus.