Source: Wealth, War, and Wisdom
John Smith (1938–1994) Labour Party leader from Scotland (1938-1994)
Hansard HC 6ser vol 243 col 437 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199394/cmhansrd/1994-05-12/Debate-1.html <br class="br">Menzies Campbell, Liberal Democrat MP and colleague at the Scottish bar. <br class="br">About
Menzies Campbell (1941) British Liberal Democrat politician and advocate
Hansard HC 6ser vol 243 col 437 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199394/cmhansrd/1994-05-12/Debate-1.html <br class="br">Paying tribute to Labour Party leader John Smith, a friend at the Scottish Bar, in the House of Commons on 12 May 1994.
“Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice…. None is a slave whose acts are free.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Fragment x.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
“I prefer an accommodating vice
To an obstinate virtue.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
J'aime mieux un vice commode,
Qu'une fatigante vertu.
Act I, sc. iv
Amphitryon (1666)
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
Epode, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
“Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.”
Franz Kafka book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
“Idleness is the mother of all vices, but also of all virtues.”
Alain (1868–1951) French philosopher
Men of Action
Alain On Happiness (1928)
“Vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery—beware of enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For Vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. (41).
