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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
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.
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
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.]
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.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
