Reflection on the Fallibility of Nemesis
Reflection on the Fallibility of Nemesis - meaning Summary
Conscience Versus Practicality
This short epigram wryly contrasts conscience and opportunism. Nash suggests that a person burdened by scruples frets over trivialities and misses chances, while the unscrupulous enjoy more pleasure and profit. The poem offers a satirical moral observation that ethical restraint can limit worldly rewards, implying a pragmatic, tongue-in-cheek skepticism about conventional virtue without prescribing judgment or solution.
Read Complete AnalysesHe who is ridden by a conscience Worries about a lot of nonscience; He without benefit of scruples His fun and income soon quadruples.
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