[[File:Figure des quatre Vertus from Ballet comique de la reine.JPG |thumb|Quattuor virtutes]]
'''Quattuor virtutes cardinales''' sunt [[Sapientia]], [[Temperantia]], [[Iustitia]] et [[Fortitudo]].<ref name="ANGL">[httphttps://bookswww.googlevatican.deva/books?id=b3AKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA313&lpg=PA313&dq=septem+virtutes&source=bl&ots=-498ghOZPX&sig=sT3uhKSJ0MXxwn__Lrt6YR9IHI0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=B_tsT4K_Csrasgb-m9SVAg&redir_esc=yarchive/catechism_lt/p3s1c1a7_lt.htm#v=onepage&q=septemI.%20virtutes&f=false20Virtutes%20humanae CodexCatechismus jurisCatholicae ecclesiastici anglicaniEcclesiae: orpars III, Thecaput statutesI, constitutions, canons ... By Church ofarticulus EnglandVII, Edmund Gibson1805]</ref>.
Illae secundum fidem rationemque dirigunt vitam hominum et eorumac mores prae aliis hominibus,; [[virtutes theologicae]] autem dirigunt mores prae Deo autem.
Et [[Plato]]<ref>''[[Protagoras (Plato)|Protagoras]]'', 330b, quodquo etiam [[pietas|pietatem]] addita est</ref> et [[Thomas Aquinas]]<ref>''[[https://www.corpusthomisticum.org/sth2055.html Summa Theologiae]]'',II(I)IaIIae, q. 61]</ref> virtutes cardinales tractaverunt.
