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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
[Quand les vices nous quittent, nous nous flattons de la créance que c’est nous qui les quittons.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶192 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #badhabit #desire #gettingold #inability #oldage #selfdeception #selfimprovement #selfrighteousness #sinfulness #vices #wrongdoing
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Betting is bad. Deregulating it to allow for betting on outcomes of war, etc. it is only making it worse. #onlinegambling #gambling #onlinebetting #betting #cdnpoli #cdnecon #vices
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Man iz mi brother, and i konsider that i am nearer related tew him through hiz vices, than i am through hiz virtews.
[Man is my brother, and I consider that I am nearer related to him through his vices, than I am through his virtues.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82682/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #brotherhood #commonality #humancondition #humanity #incommon #vices #virtues #humannature
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We try to make virtues of the faults we do not wish to correct.
[Nous essayons de nous faire honneur des défauts que nous ne voulons pas corriger.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶442 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #boasting #correction #failings #faults #fixing #merit #promotion #rebranding #selfcorrection #selfimprovement #vices #virtue #weaknesses
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My poem Psychomachian
on the ongoing "soul war" for and in minds all over.
Shown here spanning two columns.
It's partly inspired by Prudentius' ancient poem Psychomachia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PsychomachiaALT text + link: https://allpoetry.com/poem/18900752-Psychomachian-by-Robert-J.-Tiess/
#poetry #poems #souls #goodvsevil #spirituality #wars #awareness #mindfulness #peace #goodness #vices #virtues #consciousliving #questions #criticalthinking #truth #hope
Poem © Copyright Robert J. Tiess 2026
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They allow this vice but not Weed? I wonder which destroys lives more?
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No more drinking? Like ever ever?
I’m gonna be down to two “vices” here pretty soon. #vices #coldturkey
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It is a good thing to recognize one’s own faults.
[Bellum est enim sua vitia nosse.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], Book 2, Letter 17, sec. 2 (2.17.2) (59 BC) [tr. Winstedt (1912)]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #failings #faults #selfawareness #selfcriticism #vices #meme
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Here's a piece from my Substack about how we get things wrong and fail in our moral lives, a matter we often give enough attention or thought to, and which virtue ethics approaches can help with
https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/how-do-we-get-things-wrong-let-us
#Philosophy #Ethics #Life #Mistakes #Errors #Failures #Vices -
So I quite abusing alcohol last year and caffeine this year - but replaced them with eating. I need a new vice to replace eating. Any thoughts?
#addiction #foodaddict #addict #vices #health -
In 2 weeks, I'm offering a new section of my 8-week online class Aristotle on the Moral Virtues. Here's the class site https://reasonio.teachable.com/p/aristotle-on-the-moral-virtues-2024
Got ANY questions about the class? Ask away!#Aristotle #Class #Online #Virtues #Vices #Ethics #PersonalDevelopment
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Starting in a few weeks, we're offering an 8-week online class examining Aristotle's virtue ethics, with deep dive studies of the 12 virtues he examines!
Learn more about the class, or enroll here https://reasonio.teachable.com/p/aristotle-on-the-moral-virtues-2024
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@Koenfucius Here's SEP's take on the topic, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-deception/, and here IEP's entry on the ethics of it, https://iep.utm.edu/eth-self/
For me, self-deception remains an epistemic vice par excellence, no matter it's evolutionary origins or short-term psychological benefits.
#selfDeception #vices #viceEpistemology #epistemic #ClimateChange
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Rules needed 'to rein in influencers'
"government shld rein in social media #influencers to prevent them from churning out #unethical or even #illegal content, suggested the Office of #NESDC .. latest #Thailand Social's Outlook on social media trends found the increased role online content creators & influencers have in the promotion of some #vices, such as online #gambling .. countries like PRC, UK & Norway have come up with #regulations on #socialmedia #content"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2752859/rules-needed-to-rein-in-influencers -
🚬 Artist: #Lonacpot in City: #Leiria Portugal 🇵🇹 - Title: "Vices" ("Laster") (📷 by Silkfatblues ) - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Coffee #Vices #Smartphone
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Seneca claims - and makes a number of arguments (some good, some. . . ) that anger is the worst of all of the vices. Here's a core concept video on his discussion of that in On Anger book 3
https://youtu.be/lgfupnOOf6s
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There's only one situation in which John Cassian thinks anger is useful for us human beings, and that's when a person gets angry with their own vices, including paradoxically, their very own anger!
https://youtu.be/DOacwqCnMrY
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In past centuries the church performed the function of #fertility booster. Today's more complex society requires more complex #indoctrination methods. Hollywood and #corporateMedia serve this end. Look how they glamorise #megacities, war, #vices (especially #smoking) and open-borders. Oh and the character will never get an abortion (the alternative to this rule is the #PopulationMediaCenter, #PMC).
Sadly most #socialMedia platforms today, which are #centralised, like...(5/9)
