If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Health and virtue are distinct prerequisites for well-being and happiness respectively.
- In plain terms
- You can't separate health from well-being or virtue from happiness.
- What can you take from it?
- Health supports well-being; virtue supports happiness.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is virtue necessary for happiness?
- Can health exist without wellbeing?
Another view
People sometimes claim happiness without virtue despite evidence.
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If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
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