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I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single read more
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all
those who have not a single virtue.
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum read more
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
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.]
A vice is a failure of desire.
A vice is a failure of desire.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
