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Often appears with: temperance and self-mastery · temperance · hospitality to strangers · hospitality and the guest · heroic contempt for wealth
Usually: reflection (1) · the test or trial (1) · praise (1)
He develops heroism’s social and ethical features—generosity without petty calculation and a mockery of false prudence—then illustrates magnanimous hospitality, temperance, and the greatness of virtue “enough” without comfort.
a sensual prosperity; for every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. Self-trust is the essence of heroism. It is the state of the soul at war, and its ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents. It speaks the truth and it is just, gener…