The Most Noble Virtue.—In the first era of the higher humanity courage is accounted the most noble virtue, in the next justice, in the third temperance, in the fourth wisdom. In which era do we live? In which do you live?
The Most Noble Virtue.—In the first era of the higher humanity courage is accounted the most noble virtue, in the next justice, in the third temperance, in the fourth wisdom. In which era do we live? In which do you live?
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- Human, All-Too-Human, Part 2 (1913 English edition)
The Wanderer and His Shadow, complete printed aphorism 64; Paul V. Cohn translation; New York: The MacMillan Company,1913
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- c. 1872 AD · industrial
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