Full Idea
Honest towards ourselves and whatever else is our friend; courageous toward the enemy; magnanimous toward the defeated; polite - always. This is how the four cardinal virtues want us to be.
Gist of Idea
The cardinal virtues want us to be honest, brave, magnanimous and polite
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Dawn (Daybreak) [1881], 556)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Dawn (Daybreak) (v 5)', ed/tr. Smith, Brittain [Stanford 2011], p.276
A Reaction
I take this to be Nietzsche genuinely asserting his four cardinal virtues, rather than being ironic. He certainly asserts politeness as the fourth virtue earlier in the book. Cf a different list in Idea 20382
Related Idea
Idea 20382 The four virtues are courage, insight, sympathy, solitude [Nietzsche]