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Who said this? This is my paraphrase, not the actual quote I read some years ago.
A virtue practiced to the exclusion of all other virtues is evil
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posted by David Cho @ 2/14/2009
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6 Comments:
It's not exactly the same idea, but Aristotle may have said something like, "An excess of virtue is itself a vice."
It think it's the same idea. You might be right!
I said that once.
In "Orthodoxy," G.K. Chesterton says:
"The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that
are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful."
I read your post aloud, so I said it. Just now.
Glad to help.
OK, David Cho. Imagine that I am holding a pocket watch on a chain. I begin to swing the watch back and forth. Focus on the swinging watch. Follow it closely. You are beginning to get sleepy. Very sleepy.
You will begin to post again.
You will begin to post again.
You will begin to post again.
(Now we'll see if blogpnosis really works like they say it does.)
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