We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

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.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
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Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated need but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores