Quote by Bernard Mandeville

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public…

— Luc de Clapiers

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

— Samuel Johnson

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

— Joseph Addison

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

— Samuel Johnson

Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for,…

— John Calvin

“A vice is merely a pleasure that someone else has objected to.”

— Robin Skelton

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

— Charles P. Kindleberger

Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing…

— Fran Lebowitz

Vice is its own reward.

— Quentin Crisp

A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.

— Robin Skelton

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

— Samuel Butler

It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

— Marquis de Sade