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The four cardinal virtues
The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance | Josef Pieper
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These stimulating essays on the four cardinal virtues (fortitude, temperance, justice, prudence) demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Chris
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If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

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For the virtue of prudence resides in this: that the objective cognition of reality shall determine action; that the truth of real things shall become determinative.