Thursday, October 14, 2010

Magnanimity

The magnanimous person stretches forth his mind to great things.
This virtue is opposed by four vices.
1. Presumption is to attempt what is beyond ones power.
2. Ambition is to want honor for itself and not for truly being good.
To want to be known as holy or heroic without actually being holy or heroic.
3. Vainglory is wanting praise from the wicked or for something that is not good,

The daughters of vainglory are:
disobedience
boastfulness
hypocrisy
contention
obstinacy
discord
eccentricity

4. Pusillanimity is to fall short of magnanimity, to bury one's talents in the ground.

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