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“The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand, Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales, Pipes softest music through the vales, And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd, With velvet carpet spread the ground; With livelier blush where roses bloom, And every shrub expires perfume.”

Hands Pleasure Virtue Youth Band Spring Flow Rose Spread Virtuous Crowns Perfume Carpet Pipe Harmonious Hand In Hand Vigor Mansions Velvet Gale Flora Shrubs Zephyr

Book:The Ghost

Source: The Ghost

“There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and the love of action. If the former is refined by art and learning, improved by the charms of social intercourse, and corrected by a just regard to economy, to health, and to reputation, it is productive of the greatest part of the happiness of private life.”

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus

“Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.”

“However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.”

Giving May Pleasure Virtue Compliment Virtuous

Author:Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

“Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.”

Persons Age Sex Pleasure Youth Authority Old Age Carrie Virtuous

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.”

Action Order Pleasure Easier Vices Valuable Remembered Virtuous Delightful Complacency

Author:Thomas Merton