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#Aquinas’s favorite virtue was #magnanimity: “brave great dangers for great things:...common welfare, justice, divine worship....” #RabbiHeschel calls on all people: God demands every person to do #justice: it is the supreme commandment wh. cannot be fulfilled vicariously. https://bit.ly/4wvN6gS

WIST Quotations May 12

A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

Q. Should we discourage children from playing war games?

A. We might wish to discourage them, but it would be utterly useless at the present time, so we might as well give in gracefully and try to see that when war games are played they teach the lessons which we wish our children to learn — fair play, magnanimity in victory, courage in defeat and no hatred of peoples.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1942-08), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59

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Roosevelt, Eleanor - Column (1942-08), "If You Ask Me," Ladies' Home Journal, Vol. 59 | WIST Quotations

Q. Should we discourage children from playing war games? A. We might wish to discourage them, but it would be utterly useless at the present time, so we might as well give in gracefully and try to see that when war games are played they teach the lessons which we…

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RevDrMatthewFox Mar 6

#Aquinas: "It pertains to #Magnanimity to have a great soul."
"Because #courage ...strengthens a person against #evil, magnanimity strengthens a person to take on good tasks.That is why #trust pertains more properly to magnanimity than to courage...No evil person [can]be magnanimous." bit.ly/4qqZFGo
Image: Queen Esther publicly exposes Haman’s plot to Ahasuerus during the royal banquet. Painting by Jan Steen, Wikimedia.

GrooveMD, Queer Time Machine Nov 19, 2025

Winston Churchill once urged Roosevelt to officially refer to what we call World War Two as "The Unnecessary War". He described his historical account as "How the English-speaking peoples through their unwisdom, carelessness, and good nature, allowed the wicked to rearm."

I love reading this fellow already, and I'm not even past the Prologue.

#history #Resolution #Defiance #Magnanimity #Goodwill

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John Carmichael Dec 28, 2023

On Magnanimity
I left some money on the table yesterday. Money I'd earned a few times over, but which felt unfair to take given the rules of engagement we have in my work. I left it open for magnanimity for the recipients, but the only one being magnanimous was me. Does that make me a schmuck or honorable? What's a little money when honor is at stake?

I tell my children joki
https://alexandersmap.com/2023/12/28/on-magnanimity/
#Lifestyle #Arete #Generosity #Magnanimity #Philosophy

On Magnanimity - Alexandersmap

I left some money on the table yesterday. Money I’d earned a few times over, but which felt unfair to take given the rules of engagement we have in my work. I left it open for magnanimity for the recipients, but the only one being magnanimous was me. Does that make me a schmuck or...

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