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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
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?
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
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."
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.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
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.