Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without 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.

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.

Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

Ne'er blush'd, unless, in spreading vice's snares,
She blunder'd on some virtue unawares.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

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."

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

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.