What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
‘Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave; Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies.’ Pope, Moral Essays, Ep. i. line 115.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 132 ● ISBN 9783735760029 ● File size 0.3 MB ● Publisher Books on Demand ● Published 2019 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7419091 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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