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Virtue Quotes by Simone Weil
- The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.
- In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
- Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
- Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan…
- We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.
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