Hence, while virtue "most essentially consists in benevolence to being" (True Virtue, 1765; Edwards 1957–, vol. 8, 540), in a wider sense it includes not only benevolence but also "complacence" in benevolence's intrinsic excellence or beauty.
As states grow towards freedom and pluralistic democracy, so it benefits religions to evolve towards cooperation and benevolence but it is only with a message of embrace and inclusion that this elevation can be achieved.
Since God's benevolence alone is perfect, he is the only thing that is (truly) beautiful without qualification.
Hurry, hurry, hurry," she said, for it was dark then, and she knew that we are bound, one to another, in licentious benevolence for only a single day, and that day was nearly over.
A gentle avalanche of altruism ensues, poignant and imperilled, for, as Cheever reminds us in his haunting penultimate sentence, "we are bound, one to another, in licentious benevolence for only a single day".
For Reid, then, virtue requires caring not only about particular persons (they are, according to Reid, the objects of benevolence), but also about virtue itself.
If there is only benevolence and righteousness, then one will not seek profit, but one will never fail to profit" (Van Norden 2008, 2).
The National Horsemen's Benevolence and Protective Association not only opposed the proposed rule but also said that if it were put in place, many owners in other states would quit racing in New York.
Take a tip from Guy de Maupassant: 'If you search for knife wounds or for arrests, then go to Paris or London, but don't come here, where you can travel throughout night and day, without escort or arms; you will find only extreme benevolence towards foreigners.' The city is Palermo, in Sicily.
Only true benevolence, therefore, is truly beautiful.
