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Updated: May 14, 2025
Virtue has never yet been adequately represented by any who have had any claim to be considered virtuous. It is the sub-vicious who best understand virtue. Let the virtuous people stick to describing vice- -which they can do well enough. My Virtuous Life I have led a more virtuous life than I intended, or thought I was leading.
Unless a man is out- and-out virtuous he is sub-vicious. Virtue is, as it were, the repose of sleep or death. Vice is the awakening to the knowledge of good and evil without which there is no life worthy of the name. Sleep is, in a way, a happier, more peaceful state than waking and, in a way, death may be said to be better than life, but it is in a very small way.
The most that can be said for virtue is that there is a considerable balance in its favour, and that it is a good deal better to be for it than against it; but it lets people in very badly sometimes. If you wish to understand virtue you must be sub-vicious; for the really virtuous man, who is fully under grace, will be virtuous unconsciously and will know nothing about it.
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