This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

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.

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.

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.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

To sanction Vice, and hunt Decorum down.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Many without punishment, none without sin.