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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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 132 ● ISBN 9783735760029 ● Tamanho do arquivo 0.3 MB ● Editora Books on Demand ● Publicado 2019 ● Edição 1 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 7419091 ● Proteção contra cópia DRM social