Shake-Speare:
Ulysses: [Man] feels not what he owes [owns], but by reflection,
As, when his virtues shining upon others
Heat them, and they retort that heat again
To the first giver.
Achilles: This is not strange, Ulysses.
The beauty that is borne here in the face
The bearer knows not, but commends itself
To others' eyes;
Troilus And Cressida 3.3.99-105
As, when his virtues shining upon others
Heat them, and they retort that heat again
To the first giver.
Achilles: This is not strange, Ulysses.
The beauty that is borne here in the face
The bearer knows not, but commends itself
To others' eyes;
Troilus And Cressida 3.3.99-105
Bacon: "A virtuous man will be virtuous in solitudine, and not only in theatro,
though percase it will be more strong by glory and reflection".
Colours of Good and Evil
though percase it will be more strong by glory and reflection".
Colours of Good and Evil
Comment: Has any other writer of the time observed that, not only is a virtuous person more virtuous in public, but also that his virtue excites virtue in others and then has these public virtues in others reflected back to him again, further exciting his own virtue?
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