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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we read more
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame.
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.
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.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
