To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

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.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

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.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

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."