A vice is a failure of desire.

A vice is a failure of desire.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

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.

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

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."

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.