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Often appears with: justice as a virtue · self-command · rome vs greece · providence and divine governance · pride, vanity, and humility · popular displeasure · political legitimacy and consent · ideals of character · education and the training of the young · divine governance · cato the younger
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“But ROME! it stands by itself, a clear Word. The power of will, the dignity of a fixed purpose is what it utters.” Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I · insight
Plutarch repeats that God governs by persuasive reason rather than force, then turns to Cato the Younger as an example of virtue that displeases the people yet ultimately helps the commonwealth survive.
and most harmonious. For thus we are taught even God governs the world, not by irresistible force, but persuasive argument and reason, controlling it into compliance with his eternal purposes. Cato the younger is a similar instance. His manners were little agreeable or acceptable to the people, and he received very slender marks of their favor; witness his repulse when he sued for the consulship, which he lost, as …
She argues that Roman virtue and stern purpose shaped her ideal of character, contrasting Rome’s will and individuality with Greece’s beauty, and links these readings to her sense of what humans must learn to do in life.
the fire over the land, either impassive, or irresistible; knowing not the soft mediums or fine flights of life, but by the force which he expresses, piercing to the centre. 'We are never better understood than when we speak of a "Roman virtue," a "Roman outline." There is somewhat indefinite, somewhat yet unfulfilled in the thought of Greece, of Spain, of modern Italy; but ROME! it stands by itself, a c…