“There are some who protest that virtue has nothing to do with courtesy. ‘Prayer, devotions and pious works make a man advance in the spiritual life’, they say, ‘not good manners, protocol and laws of etiquette’. This position is simply not true.
The laws of courtesy were shaped by a spirit of sacrifice, because our nature revolts against the effort demanded by good manners and protocol.
To have courtesy, we must have the virtue of humility to recognize our good qualities as well as our shortcomings; the virtue of justice to give each person that which he has a right to receive; and the virtue of charity to control our moods and govern our actions out of respect for ourselves and our neighbors.
To receive the sweetness in daily life that courtesy provides, one must first recognize that the laws of courtesy are intricately connected to the practice of virtue.”
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