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There will be vice as long as there are men.
There will be vice as long as there are men.
O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's read more
O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
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.]
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
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.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
