“As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.” MindExampleSickRegardVicesFuneralDisgraceMisers Author:Horace
“the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.” KnowsMenOrderPowerfulPowerGroupsMysterySurvivalRegardVicesDiscriminationInequalityKnow MeVice Versa Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.” MenFirstsLyingImagineColorRegardBravePaintVicesHorribleCowardAbandonedDespiseDisgustingTestimonyDisgracefulAffording Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.” MenTwoFoundSidesQualityMoralVirtueCircumstancesEssentialsRegardFaultsVicesMeritConcealedTwo SidesBadges Book:History of English Literature Source: History of English Literature
“The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.” SelfLordDangerRegardVicesWorldlyOur LordSelf SufficiencySufficiencyFeckless Author:C. S. Lewis