“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Variant: The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Model Prisons (March 1, 1850)
“The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.”
Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Variant: The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
“The doctrine of virtue and vice depends on that of the soul.”
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
X. Concerning Virtue and Vice.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: The doctrine of virtue and vice depends on that of the soul. When the irrational soul enters into the body and immediately produces fight and desire, the rational soul, put in authority over all these, makes the soul tripartite, composed of reason, fight, and desire. Virtue in the region of reason is wisdom, in the region of fight is courage, in the region of desire is temperance; the virtue of the whole soul is righteousness. It is for reason to judge what is right, for fight in obedience to reason to despise things that appear terrible, for desire to pursue not the apparently desirable, but, that which is with reason desirable. When these things are so, we have a righteous life; for righteousness in matters of property is but a small part of virtue. And thus we shall find all four virtues in properly trained men, but among the untrained one may be brave and unjust, another temperate and stupid, another prudent and unprincipled. Indeed, these qualities should not be called virtues when they are devoid of reason and imperfect and found in irrational beings. Vice should be regarded as consisting of the opposite elements. In reason it is folly, in fight, cowardice, in desire, intemperance, in the whole soul, unrighteousness.
The virtues are produced by the right social organization and by good rearing and education, the vices by the opposite.
Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704) French serman writer
as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 137
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer
"The Grammar of Story", in Celebrating Children's Books (1981), pp. 10–11
“Benevolence is more a vice of pride than a true virtue of the soul.”
Marquis de Sade Philosophy in the Bedroom
First Dialogue, Delmonce
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)
Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909)
The Novel: What It Is (1893)