Quote #167
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
More from Edmund Burke
- If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
- Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- Beauty is the promise of happiness.
- Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling - it never forgives the preaching of a new gospel.
- Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
- What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
- It has always been with me, a test of the sense and candour of any one belonging to the opposite party, whether he allowed Burke to be a gr…