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Nature has given us friendship as the handmaid of virtue , not as a partner in guilt : to the end that virtue , being powerless when isolated to reach the highest objects , might succeed in doing so in union and partnership with another ...
Nature has given us friendship as the handmaid of virtue , not as a partner in guilt : to the end that virtue , being powerless when isolated to reach the highest objects , might succeed in doing so in union and partnership with another ...
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But I am not now speaking of absolute virtue , but of the belief men have that they possess virtue . The fact is that fewer people are endowed with virtue than wish to be thought to be so . It is such people that take delight in ...
But I am not now speaking of absolute virtue , but of the belief men have that they possess virtue . The fact is that fewer people are endowed with virtue than wish to be thought to be so . It is such people that take delight in ...
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude , which in morals is the more heroical virtue . Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New , which carrieth the ...
The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude , which in morals is the more heroical virtue . Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New , which carrieth the ...
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action activity affection appear become beginning believe better body Books bring called cause character Church conception consider course death definite desire direct doubt evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith Faust fear feeling follow force friendship give given hand happen hope human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest keep kind knowledge least less light live logical look material matter meaning method mind moral nature never object observation old age once particular pass person philosopher play pleasure poet possible practical present problem qualities question reason reflection relation remains result rule seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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