Virtues

Note to self – in ancient Greece the four Platonic virtues were wisdom, courage, moderation and justice. Apparently a life guided by these virtues, as the beacon to aim for, is a life well lived.

St. Augustine expanded on the theme ‘For these four virtues I should have no hesitation in defining them: that temperance is love giving itself entirely to that which is loved; fortitude is love readily bearing all things for the sake of the loved object; justice is love serving only the loved object, and therefore ruling rightly; prudence is love distinguishing with sagacity between what hinders it and what helps it.’