“...the intemperately wrathful man is less obnoxious than the intemperately lustful one, while the immoderate pleasure-seeker, intent on dissimulation and camouflage, is unable to give or take a straight look in the eye.”
― The Four Cardinal Virtues
― The Four Cardinal Virtues
“Finally, it is no longer completely fantastic to think that a day may come when not the executioners alone will deny the inalienable rights of men, but when even the victims will not be able to say why it is that they are suffering injustice.”
― The Four Cardinal Virtues
― The Four Cardinal Virtues
“What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.”
― Diary
― Diary
“Perhaps when all the consequences of a false presupposition suddenly becomes a direct threat mean in their great terror will become aware that it is no longer possible to call back to true and effective life a truth they have allowed to become remote --- just for the sake of their bare survival.”
― The Four Cardinal Virtues
― The Four Cardinal Virtues
“The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.”
― The Four Cardinal Virtues
― The Four Cardinal Virtues
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