Category: virtue...
- If you single-pointedly practice great compassion, you will be able to gain all other virtues with little effort.
- the seven virtues: charity, faith, fortitude, hope, justice, prudence, temperance, (four cardinal or natural virtues)
- Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue - the quote on the base of the Iwo Jima war memorial in Washington, DC
- wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it
- conformity of life and conduct with the principles of morality
- the four cardinal virtues go back to Socrates
- the theological virtues are faith, hope, and love - from the apostle Paul - with his designation of love being the greatest virtue
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. (Aristotle)
- Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea. (F. Duc de La Rochefoucauld)
- Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! (Charles Dickens)
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