Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

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.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De read more

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those
same vices underfoot.
[Lat., De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa
calcamus.]

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

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.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask