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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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9788822839923 ● Dimensione 1.7 MB ● Casa editrice François Duc De La Rochefoucauld ● Pubblicato 2016 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 5121720 ● Protezione dalla copia DRM sociale
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