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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
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.]
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.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
