“There is no valid virtue without piety, and there is no authentic piety without virtue.”
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 70, 978-1-936597-32-1]
Spiritual path, Virtue
“The Euthyphron then gives us a two-fold presentation of piety. First, a discussion of what piety is. Secondly, a presentation of the problem of Socrates' piety.”
An Untitled Lecture on Plato's Euthyphron (1996)
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“A chilly piety leaked into the air.”
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Source: Desolation Road (1988), Chapter 49 (p. 248).
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“4915. There is no Piety in keeping an unjust Promise.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
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William Alexander (1570–1640) irish bishop, born 1824
Doomsday, Hour v, lv https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e8DnAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR45&lpg=PR45&dq=William+Alexander+doomsday&source=bl&ots=taUqo5dShA&sig=CcMyo0Y7DxR7VknOu4J0xdRyQao&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAGoVChMI8OLI24nKxwIVi-0UCh3i1QtP#v=onepage&q=The%20weaker%20sexe&f=false.
“Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.”
John Denham (1615–1669) English poet and courtier
Of Prudence (1668), line 83.
“Again that smile of exquisite and self-congratulatory piety.”
Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 8 (p. 98)