“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
“Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.”
Volume iii, p. 332
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“A character is a completely fashioned will.”
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Novalis (1829)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), I Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting
“This vice [Pride] does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the miseries of others.”
Haec non suis commodis prosperitatem, sed ex alienis metitur incommodis.
Haec non suis commodis prosperitatem, sed ex alienis metitur incommodis.
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Alternate translation: [Pride] measures her prosperity not by her own goods but by others' wants.
Source: Utopia (1516), Ch. 9 : Of the Religions of the Utopians
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 89
“No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.”
Source: Germania (98), Chapter 19
Source: First Things, Last Things (1971), Ch. 8 "Thoughts on the Present"
"The Holy Dimension", p. 333
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
