Choice: apparent injustice over greater wrong.
The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Choice between evils. · view the constellation · filed as J225
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Angel and hermit. Angel takes hermit with him and does many seemingly unjust things. Later shows why each of these was just God punishes many men because of one sinner, like a man who kills hive of bees for stinging of one Angel in form of young man shows skeptical hermit that ways of providence are inscrutable Youth made lame: had kicked his mother Lion sent to kill a man: frees him from possibility of sinning and sojourn in purgatory Angel takes cup from old man. Done lest he love the cup too much Angel (Jesus) kills man. Done because man is plotting a murder Angel kills man because he loves his child too much Saint gives liberally to gambler, little to beggar. Gambler is generous, beggar hoards Forestman who longs to do evil is sent to hell: writer, who repents, is sent to heaven. God justifies this to his sage Evil mother has fine funeral, good father poor
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Four choices, all of which are evil; man to make one choice only Choice: free poverty or enslaved wealth Choice: plainness with safety or grandeur with danger Choice: loss of beauty or speech. Latter chosen Choice: suffering in youth or old age Present evil preferred to change for worse Choice of deaths Captivity preferred to death Enemies make peace rather than slay each other Choice: small injustice permitted rather than to cause troubles of state Rescue alone from shipwreck chosen over drowning with goods Choice between evils: pay tribute or lose both money and life Difficult choice between relatives Death preferred to other evils Choice between evils – miscellaneous
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