"The real job of every moral teacher..." - Quote by C S Lewis
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
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“We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.”
“Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.”
“A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.”
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“In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.”
“Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.”
“Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.”