There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.

There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.

When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells of a nameless deed.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.