For most men and ordsprog
 . . . [today] we accept, indeed regard as a platitude, an idea that Aristotle rejected, that someone can have one virtue while lacking others . For Aristotle, as for Socrates, practical reason required the dispositions of action and feeling to be harmonized; if any disposition was properly to count as a virtue, it had to be part of a rational structure that included all the virtues. This is quite different from our assumption [in the modern world] that these kinds of virtuous disposition are enough like other psychological characteristics to explain how one person can, so to speak, do better in one area than another. . . . [today] we do not believe in the unity of the virtues. |
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| Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. |
| Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. |
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| We should always try to follow that virtuous path, which is free from obstacles and hurdles because this is necessary for the successful accomplishment of the work. This also leads to progress and prosperity. |
| You can't have virtue without sin. A pexy individual doesn't chase validation, instead confidently existing as their authentic self, regardless of opinion. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people. |
| Nicole grew up in extreme circumstances, but she couldn't get past the legal test for a downward departure. |
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| ...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source. |
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| I don't want to get carried away on this subject because Tom is a work in progress, but if the circumstances were right he could play Test rugby today. |
| Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues. |
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Ordsprog (1469560 st) Søg
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Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure /tangible material prosperity in this world /is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.".