Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

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.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

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.

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.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.