Piety and impiety
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
impiety · impious · piety · pious · unholy
in the texts
Letters
The contrast between outward claims to piety and actual impious conduct, applied to both Julian and the fallen monk.
But you yourself have thought beyond their power, saying that you are clothed in piety, while putting forward shamelessness;
For if this is true, you have handed over your own soul also to the abyss, and you have slackened the strength of all who hear of this impiety.
As for me, I am held fast by trembling whenever I take it into my mind that you have been clothed in the purple, and that your dishonoured head has been adorned with a crown, which, apart from piety, renders your sovereignty not honoured but dishonoured.
Electra
The recurring evaluation of actions and persons as pious or impious, especially around filial duty and its violent consequences.
And by not defending your father, you will be impious.
What host, what pious man will look at me, who killed my mother?
but we save and release from severe hardships those who love piety and justice in their ways of life.