. Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. Thomas Fuller If you wish to save men from any particular vice, set up a tremendous cry of warning about some other, and they will all give their special efforts to the one to which attention is called.

So blinded are we to our passions, that we suffer more to insure perdition than salvation. The defects of a preacher are soon spied. Temperance is reason's girdle, and passion's bride, the strength of the soul, and the foundation of virtue. Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness - today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Rousseau It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders. Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. Philosophically, one scarcely sees either the necessity or the possibility of being born again. Who flatters, is, of all mankind, the lowest, save he who courts the flattery. Many things are possible for the person who has hope. God never approves sexual union outside of marriage. Charles DudleyBy way of example, while patience is a fine trait, if it results in acceptance of unjust treatment or lack of respect, it becomes a detriment.istorically, vice and virtue have been dictated to us by the clergy, and there is no greater example of this than the God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue. I will tell you what to hate. And no virtue and vice are so much divided as those two virtues.” – “The Secret of Flambeau,” The Secret of Father Brown “There are two ways in which a man may vanish – through being thoroughly conquered or through being thoroughly the Conqueror. Demeanors are commonly paid back in their own coin. Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world. When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. Napoleon Vice often rides triumphant in virtue’s chariot. Quotes on Wisdom. Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains. Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it. ~Oscar Wilde, Preface to Dorian Gray, 1890 Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. But the Bible is pretty clear about pride: “Pride goes before disaster, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Modesty is the appendage of sobriety, and is to chastity, to temperance, and to humility as the fringes are to a garment. Hate hypocrisy; hate cant; hate intolerance, oppression, injustice, Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them - with a deep, abiding, God-like hatred. Oliver Wendell Holmes  One can pass on responsibility but not the discretion that goes with it. Votes: 0 William Hazlitt Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts the entire heart and eradicates every virtue. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own. Beauty without virtue is like a flower without fragrance. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path. Never excuse yourself.


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