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Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask
Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
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.
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.
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
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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.]