Virtue

We all have at our heart a drive. An impulse toward life lived positively in as healthy and peaceful a way possible. But in the pursuit of moral excellence, it’s all too easy to sink into hubris. One can knowingly engage in a path of action leading to vice in the pursuit of moral excellence.

To be virtuous is to be vital without being reactionary. The only true virtue is virtue shared. All else is sentiment, and sentiment by itself is blind. Virtue is a necessity, but the necessities are not virtuous.

“Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.” Proverb

“People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.” Confucius