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And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
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.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
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.]
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
