VICES
AND VIRTUES
Good health depends on shunning
vices and embracing virtues.
A vice is defined as immoral or
wicked behaviour. It is a form of un-ethicalness.
It has harmful effects on one’s body, mind, and soul.
The antonym of vice is virtue. Its
synonyms are – wrongdoing, wickedness, badness, evil-doing, frailty, evilness,
crime, offence, scandal, and sin.
The synonyms of virtue are :
uprightness, goodness, probity, integrity, morality, excellence, righteousness, incorruptibility,
rectitude, grace, merit, and excellence,
What are some of the vices?
There are at least ten vices which
one must shun. They are: greed, envy, gluttony, pride, sloth, wrath, malice, slander,
filthy language and lies.
Virtues keep a man healthy, wealthy,
and wise. They keep him happy, calm, peaceful, safe, contented, patient,
fearless, friendly, loving, and affectionate,
A vicious person loses sleep. A
virtuous person enjoys a long peaceful
sleep even in a dangerous situation.
Vices destroy health and happiness.
For example, anger can be fatal. Vices
affect one’s digestion and make him seriously sick.
Virtues make you brave, patient,
robust, glad, cheerful, contented, and worthy of public respect and populariy.
A vicious person is unreliable; a
virtuous one is trustworthy.
Hell awaits a person who has lived a
vicious life. Heaven is wide open and
ready to welcome a virtuous man.
A vicious man is irreligious. A virtuous
one s a spiritualist. He is concerned with the purity of his soul; whereas the vicious
person is a slave of his unhealthy materialistic desires.
To conclude,
here are two memorable quotes:
1.
Be
at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbour, and let every new year
find you a better man.
2.
It
is easier to be vile together than to be virtuous alone. Be noble like the sun;
let even those who resent you for shining benefit from your warmth. True virtue
is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence. When truth looks in the mirror, virtue looks
out.
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G.R.Kanwal
7th June 2026
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