It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.
Virtue is harmony.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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