“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.”
“No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.”
“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”
“Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.”
“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”
“As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”