People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.


Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]. (ed. 1837)

William Hazlitt Quotes

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us ...

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us ...

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us ...

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us ...