Perhaps all he needed to do to punish the owners of Lilydrake was to make a public scandal out of the woman's private vice.

Gambling and socialites in public-and behind the scenes all the private vice you could afford.

Gambling and socialities in public--and behind the scenes all the private vice you could afford.

Todd admitted it with a little nod, as though it were a private vice.

Bernard Mandeville claimed that private vices are actually public benefits.

Similarly he arrives at the great paradox that "private vices are public benefits".

Money or excitement or advance knowledge or whatever happens to be your choice of private vices.

And today free markets have turned private vices into public virtues.

His private vices, if any, were really nobody else's business.

We could also talk about Mandeville and private vice for public virtue.