Nov 5th, 2007 Posted in Virtue | no comment »
“Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or in habitation.”
1. The degree to which somebody keeps clean or a place is kept clean
More often than not, things and people are as they appear. - Malcolm Forbes
Cleanliness is the luxury of the poor - Mexican Proverb
What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Moral, like physical, cleanliness is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline. - Victoria Ocampo
This was obviously a key character trait to the fastidious Franklin, but what can it possible mean to us today? Should we remain clean, with everything in good order, so that we can appear to the rest of humanity as people who are “sorted out”? What are my reasons for handing this “virtue status”? Read the rest of this entry »
