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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum read more
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
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.
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.
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.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
