A Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
[Cardinal John O'Connor] had [my wife] Margot and me over for drinks a couple of times. That was something I never could have envisioned back when I was a kid in Boston, that a cardinal and I would be, if not breaking bread, at least breaking Scotch.
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.
Three cardinal virtues of business: creativity, building community, practical realism.
Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
By doing what our assailant least expects us to do, we may throw him completely off. ... what he usually least suspects is instant, violent counterattack, so the principle of aggressiveness is closely tied to threat of surprise.
Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry!
The Spirit of Justice is the single most important seed Piers planted; if you don't live by its teaching, your chance of salvation is nil. Unless Conscience and the Cardinal Virtues form the food that people live on, just take my word for it, they're utterly lost - every single living soul among them!
In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'
When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.
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