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What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
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.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
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.
If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.
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.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
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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.]
