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.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]

Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]

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

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

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

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.

If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.

If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us.