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It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with 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.
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
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.]
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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.
