Quote by Henry Fielding

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which

Summary

This quote implies that there is a body of religious or moral texts that suggest that being virtuous leads to happiness and vice results in misery in this life. The speaker finds this belief pleasant but disagrees with it because they believe it is untrue. In essence, the individual argues that there is no guaranteed correlation between virtue and happiness or vice and misery in reality.

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By Henry Fielding

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