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Vices are often habits rather than passions.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
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.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices