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The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
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.
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.]
If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
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.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.