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Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
There will be vice as long as there are men.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
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
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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.]
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
