Values are like diamonds nestled in the sand. The winds of life....adversity...weariness... hardship.. blow at them dislodging the detritus around them yet they sustain despite age and time. Ben was human and had his faults but he at least set a course for integrity. He is worth emulating

www.thirteenvirtues.com/

Thanks beau.

Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

Whoah whoah what!?
All or nothing I say (and for a few weeks it's been nothing).

Chastity. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring...

Whoah whoah what!?
All or nothing I say (and for a few weeks it's been nothing).

smicko said..

Is number 14 schmoo?

Cos schmoo is pretty good too.

Didn't realise until the end that it was an edit "overindulging" on Emily. Great version - much better than the original.

Mahanumah said...
Oscar Wilde had it right...

"Moderation is a fatal thing! Nothing succeeds like excess!"

didn't he die from syphilis

Mahanumah said..

Oscar Wilde had it right...

"Moderation is a fatal thing! Nothing succeeds like excess!"

We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. - Oscar Wilde