Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Vice

    idea · 3 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages

    vice

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    MeditationsImperial · Greek

    Moral wrongdoing or corruption of character

    What is vice?
    book seven
    It is laughable not to flee one's own vice, which is possible, yet to flee the vice of others, which is impossible.
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    Vice, taken generally, does no harm to the universe;
    book eight

    Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

    A settled bad state of character in which a person chooses wrongdoing deliberately.

    So with folly:
    chapter 7
    Bestiality is less 〈evil〉 than vice, though more horrible:
    chapter 7
    for Unrestraint acts against deliberate choice, Vice in accordance with it.
    chapter 7

    De legendis gentilium librisLate Antiquity · Greek

    The base alternative to virtue, personified as a seductive woman in the Heracles allegory.

    For the one was tricked out by cosmetics into beauty, melting with luxury, and led a whole swarm of pleasures clinging to her;
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    But once a man is up, he can see how smooth and fair it is, how easy and well-furnished, and pleasanter than the other road, the one that leads to vice—which, this same poet says, may be taken whole and at a stretch from close at hand.
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    Or with what other intent are we to suppose that Hesiod composed those verses which all men sing, than to urge the young to virtue—how the road that leads to virtue is at first rough and hard to travel, full of much sweat and toil, and steep?
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