Tagged: virtue
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable: they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” -Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
One should always be drunk.
That’s the great thing; the only question. Not to feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and bowing you to the earth, you should be drunk without respite.
Drunk with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. But get drunk.
And if sometimes you happen to awake, on the stairs of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the dreary solitude of your own room, and find that your drunkenness is ebbing or has vanished, ask the wind and the wave, ask star, the bird and the clock will all reply: It is Time to get drunk! If you are to be the martyred slaves of Time, be perpetually drunk! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue as you please.”
-Charles Pierre Baudelaire
“The virtue of courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost.” -C.S. Lewis
“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of profit and care — with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.” -David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it.” -David Starr Jordan
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