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Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
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.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
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.
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.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
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."
