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Many without punishment, none without sin.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne read more
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to
the rank of the offender.
[Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
