Ch. 5 : Requirements of Bread and Butter http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CABELL/ch05.htm
Jurgen (1919)
Aphorism 44
Les Caractères (1688), Du mérite personnel
Context: That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.
“Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.”
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Flying Stars
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
“If you would give every man as he deserves, then love the good and pity those who are evil.”
Vis aptam meritis uicem referre:
Dilige iure bonos et miseresce malis.
Poem IV, lines 11-12; translation by Richard H. Green
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book IV
Quoted on Archives. Daily News, "Dingiri Banda Wijetunga - the journey to greatness" http://archives.dailynews.lk/2008/09/22/fea01.asp, September 22, 2008.
St. 5
The Present Crisis (1844)
Context: Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right,
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
“God will call evil men to a strict account for all the outward good that they have enjoyed.”
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Great Beast (1947), p. 122
Source: Between Caesar and Jesus (1899), pp. 24-25
