Virtues

After years of wandering around and through discussions of virtues, it occurs to me to gather things together. I will likely be building on this page for years. I hope I will be.

Some writings listed here won't be precisely named for a virtue, but I've found that behaviors and virtues are no good if they're separated. Theoretical virtues are no virtues at all. Virtues in a book, or on a webpage, are like sheet music or patterns. Until the project is created or the music is in the air, the "directions" are just paper, or patterns in light, in the case of these words.

Think these things through; try them out; look around and see them in the world.

Ælflæd of Duckford



Humility and Formality

Commentary on Virtue

Lists of Virtues

Henry V

Courage

Faith

Franchise

Honesty

Humility

Largesse

Prowess

Temperance


RELATED STATES and IDEALS

Probity

Noblesse Oblige

Modesty



Outside links:
Of the Vertues that Apperteyne to Chyvalry, A Modern Essay on Chivalric Virtue, by Sir Garick von Kopke, on the Chronique site.


The Knightly Virtues, on the Lochac Order of Chivalry site; not credited. in 2024, this was gone; couldn't find an archived copy.


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