“ By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little. ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
|---|---|
| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | vice love |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
Context
“unqualified for the work of reformation, because their minds are not only
unfurnished with patterns of the fair and good, but by habit they come to
take no delight in the contemplation of those things. By hating vices too
much, they come to love men too little. It is, therefore, not wonderful
that they should be indisposed and unable to serve them. From hence arises
the complexional disposition of some of your guides to pull everything in
pieces. At this malicious game they display the whole of their quadrimanous”
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