Now, I have already said in my treatise on Morals (if I may here make any use of what I have there shown), that happiness consists in the energy and perfect practice of virtue; and this not relatively, but
simply; I mean by relatively, what is necessary in some certain circumstances; by
simply, what is good and fair in itself: of the first sort are just punishments, and restraints in a just cause; for they arise from virtue and are necessary, and on that account are virtuous; though it is more desirable that neither any state nor any individual should stand in need of them; but those actions which are intended either to procure honour or wealth are
simply good; the others eligible only to remove an evil; these, on the contrary, are the foundation and means of relative good.
Say, I've just been down to the store and bought me these gloves, for I was bound I wouldn't wear mittens this winter; they're simply too countrified.
"I've simply given up trying to please her, for there's no justice in her; she is good to her favorites, but she doesn't pay the least attention to anybody else, except to make sarcastic speeches about things that are none of her business.
He simply ignored the exposure, and the comments of the other city papers, and in the process of time he easily lived down the memory of it and went on to greater usefulness in his profession.
As for his notions of literature, I simply accepted them with the feeling that any question of them would have been little better than blasphemy.
"We are a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply
"We are a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation,--and unostentatiously, as becomes our unofficial state--and therefore, we have no excuse to tender for presenting ourselves before your Majesty--"
Idifference, incapacity--I won't admit; surely it's not
simply laziness?"
He
simply would not be humble, and clanked his sword in a disgusting way.
"'Tis a pitiful tale," said the Bellman, whose face Had grown longer at every word: "But, now that you've stated the whole of your case, More debate would be
simply absurd.
"And why didn't you
simply come straight to me as to a friend?
"What generous impulses he has, and how
simply, how delicately he put an end to all the misunderstanding with his sister--simply by holding out his hand at the right minute and looking at her like that.