Saturday, December 16, 2023
Absolute Virtue
The Note-books of Samuel Butler, ed. Henry Festing Jones (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1917), p. 28:
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The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullnesses of it and the pomposities of it.Id.:
God does not intend people, and does not like people, to be too good. He likes them neither too good nor too bad, but a little too bad is more venial with him than a little too good.
