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One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
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.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
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.
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De read more
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa
calcamus.]
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
