Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (1850-1894)

Or at least partly wrong. It is true that leading a fully moral life leads to full happiness, but it is also true that an unhappy person may nevertheless have some correct morals. So just because someone has a dreary life, it doesn't mean that there is no area in which they can be honored or emulated.


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