No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.