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Thu 3 Jun 2021

Scorn

Posted by PJ under cynicism, gods, loathing, quote of the day, virtue
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Random quote of the day:

“The gods granted man great and dazzling virtues that put him in a position to overcome all. But at the same time they granted him a bitterer virtue which makes him scorn afterward everything that can be overcome.”

—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1952 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Thu 19 Nov 2020

Helping

Posted by PJ under help, quote of the day, virtue
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Random quote of the day:

“Stop helping so much. Don’t get your help and goodness all over everybody.”

—Anne Lamott, TED Talk, April 28, 2017

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Fri 2 Oct 2020

Handmaidens

Posted by PJ under poverty, quote of the day, virtue, wealth
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Random quote of the day:

“Patience and latitude and even humility are paradoxically the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.”

—James Lee Burke, Wayfaring Stranger

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Thu 20 Feb 2020

Virtue

Posted by PJ under crime and punishment, quote of the day, society, virtue
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Random quote of the day:

“If swindling pays, then it will not stop. The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays. I can now add a slight variation on this; you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays.”

—Abraham Maslow, Eupsychian Management: A Journal

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Thu 30 May 2019

Virtuous

Posted by PJ under art, artists, quote of the day, virtue
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Random quote of the day:

“The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man—that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense—has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.”

—H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Series

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Mon 2 Feb 2015

Virtue

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, virtue
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Random quote of the day:

“All great virtues have an absurd aspect.”

—Albert Camus, The Notebooks, 1942-1952, tr. Justin O’Brien

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Mon 29 Jul 2013

Ther is no rose of swych vertu

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sin, virtue
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Random quote of the day:

“Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.”

—François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxim 179, Maxims

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Wed 31 Aug 2011

Virtue

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, self-righteousness, virtue
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Virtue debases itself in justifying itself.”

—Voltaire, Oedipe

 

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