There will be vice as long as there are men.

There will be vice as long as there are men.

A vice is a failure of desire.

A vice is a failure of desire.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around read more

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

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

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

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

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

Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]

Vices of the time; vices of the man.
[Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice