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The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance

Book by Josef Pieper · 5 quotes · Men, Brave, Dues

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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.”