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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.
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.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.
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.]
