“Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.”
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Founding Address (1876)
“Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase
Are fruits of innocence and blessedness.”
Mutation. A Sonnet
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