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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 heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
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.]
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
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?
