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Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
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.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De read more
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa
calcamus.]
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
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.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
