People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!