Literary notes about Conduct (AI summary)
In literature, the term "conduct" is employed in a variety of ways to depict moral character, personal behavior, and the exercise of leadership or authority. Authors use it to illustrate an individual's ethical quality or virtue—as when a character’s behavior is equated with honor and integrity [1, 2, 3]—while also referring to the management and performance of roles in public or institutional contexts [4, 5, 6]. The word additionally serves as a lens through which societal expectations are critiqued or upheld, reflecting both commendable and reprehensible actions in personal and political realms [7, 8]. This multifaceted use highlights how "conduct" encapsulates the delicate interplay between personal integrity and external judgment, a theme recurrent throughout classic and modern works.
- [27] (loyalty) by conduct such as yours."
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 by James Tod - They saw the identity of virtue and happiness, the dependence of success upon conduct.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - I serve God in the simplicity of my heart; I only seek to know what affects my conduct.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Sir Richard sent an account of this to the Admiralty; but the case could admit of no doubt, and Captain Nelson's conduct was approved.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey - He fixed generals of ability in the several stations of attack, and assumed in person the conduct of the most important province on the Upper Danube.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - She gave me ample instruction on what it was necessary I should know, on what it would be proper to say; and how I should conduct myself.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Then he began a long explanation of his conduct, excusing himself in vague terms, in default of being able to invent better.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - My conduct may, I fear, be objectionable in having accepted my dismission from your daughter's lips instead of your own.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
