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It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
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Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,
Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear
To stop the air would hurt them.
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
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Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
