Conjugial Love (Chadwick) n. 164

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164. Men's moral wisdom includes all the moral virtues which concern and enter into the way we live. There are too spiritual virtues which arise from love to God and love towards the neighbour, and these flow together to make those loves. The virtues relating to men's moral wisdom have a number of different names: temperance, sobriety, uprightness, good will, friendship, modesty, sincerity, duty, politeness, as well as assiduity, industry, skill, quickness, munificence, liberality, generosity, vigour, intrepidity, prudence, and many more. The spiritual virtues men possess are a love of religion, charity, truth, faith, conscience, innocence, and many more. Both these classes of virtues can in general be ascribed to love and zeal for religion, for the public good, for one's country, for one's fellow citizens, for one's parents, for one's wife and children. In all these justice and judgment play the leading part; justice is a matter of moral wisdom, judgment of rational wisdom.


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