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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.
If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne read more
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
