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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.
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.]
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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.
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.]
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
