Character Quotes by Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke argues that abandoning one’s true character for a false role creates ignorance of both the self and the new mask. He links restraint, discipline, and temperance to virtue and justice, saying they form the education that steadies a society. Without wisdom and morality, liberty turns into folly, while prejudice can warp virtue into habit.
![“Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may arise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning.” quote by Edmund Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/420/edmund-burke-400_character_nor-is-it-a-short-experience-that-can-in_1461317.jpg)
