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Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
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.
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?
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
