"The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society"
Source: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, p. 105, The Marx-Engels Reader
“The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.”
Circles
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
Molière
(1622–1673) French playwright and actor
Samuel Butler
(1835–1902) novelist
Vice and Virtue, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
Louis Bourdaloue
(1632–1704) French serman writer
as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 137
Ben Jonson
(1572–1637) English writer
Epode, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.”
Theodor Mommsen
(1817–1903) German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer
Vol. 4, pt. 2, translated by W.P.Dickson.
The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2
“Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue.”
L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu.
Maxim 218.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“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.
“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)