Formerly when it was believed that poverty was synonymous with vice and laziness, and that the prosperous man was the righteous man, charity was administered harshly with a good conscience; for the charitable agent really blamed the individual for his poverty, and the...
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism...
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.---------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a...
Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. from Mere Christianity