{"id":468,"date":"2006-06-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/06\/happiness-and-dignity-reside-i.html"},"modified":"2006-06-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T12:00:00","slug":"happiness-and-dignity-reside-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/06\/happiness-and-dignity-reside-i.html","title":{"rendered":"Happiness and Dignity Reside in Virtue, Says Mr. Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/blogs\/johnadams_060630.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"border:1px solid #000;margin-top:3px;margin-left:5px\" align=\"right\">&#8220;All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue. Confucius, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zoroaster\" target=\"_new\">Zoroaster<\/a>, Socrates, <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammad\" target=\"_new\">Mahomet<\/a>, not to mention authorities really sacred, have agreed in this.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Adams\" target=\"_new\">John Adams<\/a>, &#8220;Thoughts on Government,&#8221; 1776. Jesus is probably among the &#8220;really sacred&#8221; he doesn&#8217;t name, but it is interesting he cast his net as wide as he did.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue. 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