O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and ex… - Vicesimus Knox

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O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee?

Vicesimus Knox

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(8 December 1752 – 6 September 1821) was an English essayist, headmaster and Anglican priest.

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No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

Aliena vitia in oculis habemus, a tergo nostra sunt.

Every other vice hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse, but envy wants both.

O philosophy, life’s guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? - Vicesimus Knox

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