📿 Good from Evil
This week’s Saturday meditation comes from The Essays of the Sixteenth-century philosopher Michel de Montaigne.
Just as Socrates said that the prime duty of wisdom is to distinguish good from evil, we, whose best always partakes of vice, should say the same about knowing how to distinguish between the vices: if that is not done exactingly, the virtuous man and the vicious man will be jumbled unrecognizedly together. […]
There is as much diversity in vice as in anything else. Montaigne observed that we generally come down heavily on our neighbors’ sins and lessen the weight of our own.
Contemplation Questions (Pick one or create your own!):
How do you distinguish virtue from vice in daily life?
Why is it easier to spot the wrongs of others over our own?
This Week’s Meditations…
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Thank you for reading/listening this week; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
J.W.
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