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hubris,
Nick Cave • Faith, Hope and Carnage
knew, bad behavior is intensely habit-forming when it is rewarded.
Charles T. Munger • Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
Cicero worked as a hugely successful lawyer and also zoomed up the official career-ladder (the cursus honorum), taking up each office at almost the youngest possible age. Seneca had a very late start, due both to illness and (probably) lack of commitment to the political career, especially, perhaps, in the uncongenial atmosphere of the reign of Tib
... See moreEmily Wilson • The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca
back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes.
William Shakespeare • Measure for Measure
Integrity “He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out” (Proverbs 10:9).
Robert Lewis • Raising a Modern-Day Knight
VC
Natasha Wiscombe • 3 cards
Prudence is about the careful pursuit of practical wisdom beyond mere opinion and technical knowledge. Justice seeks to bring about a fair ordering of relations within the polity. Temperance calls us to restraint or self-control in an attempt to limit the vices of greed or lust. And courage is the fortitude and ability to confront fear without cowa
... See moreAdrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
Politics
Harshith Iyer • 24 cards
