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A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single read more
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single virtue.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
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.
