C. S. Lewis Quotes About Virtuous
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No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.
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Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
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