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Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Be good and you will be lonesome.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one read more
Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but read more
That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering
pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and
imitation of virtue.
[Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium
impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque
virtutis.]
