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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.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
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.]
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
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.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
