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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
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.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne read more
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
