Status Updates From A Brief Reader on the Virtu...

hope respects the reality of what man is--a being "on the way" and to believe that one is fulfilled (presumption) or never will be (despair) is out of accord with what you are

pieper is very wise

best line: "only he who has a pure heart can laugh in a freedom that creates freedom in others"

justice is limited by the badness of the world, and is hedged by the possibility of evil; fortitude requires really being wounded and being willing to endure it for justice's sake

reading with my sister

goodness in the human being is achieved through conformity to reality, not just any reality, but the highest and truly good, who is God; to really have this, one must have a self-forgetfulness, which refuses to insert oneself into reality but recieve it for itself