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Often appears with: sin, guilt, and repentance · justice as a virtue · habit vs act · duty, conscience, and obligation · duration of evil · cause and effect
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The text presents an objection that a vice (as a lasting bad habit) is worse than a sinful act, since longer-lasting evils and their causal power are ordinarily worse than brief effects.
in act: so that a thing needs to be well disposed if it has to produce a good work. It is in this respect that vice is contrary to virtue. Reply Obj. 3: As Cicero says (De Quaest. Tusc. iv), "disease and sickness are vicious qualities," for in speaking of the body he calls it disease "when the whole body is infected," for instance, with fever or the like; he calls it sickness "when the disease is attended with weakn…