«
»

Virtue and Happiness


Virtue and Happiness

Some will debate the origins of the probablistic relationship between virtue and happiness. They will disagree as to whether it is a gift from God or a natural result of the interaction of human genetics and their ecosystem. 

You may suit yourself regarding the origins of this natural relationship, but you would deny the fact of it at your own peril and also your loved ones.

Virtue really is not its own reward: The rewards may be delayed, but there are many others likely to come.

George Washington knew this and so should we all.

VTM

Founder's Quote Daily

“There exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness … we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” –George Washington, First Inaugural Address, 1789

 To subscribe to Founder’s Quote Daily and The Patriot Post, link to http://patriotpost.us/subscribe/.

Tags: , , ,

This entry was posted on January 28, 2011 at 9:08 AM and is filed under Boiling the American Frog, Critical Quotes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: