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

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

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.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

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

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost?