Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.
Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.
Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.
As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.
Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.