The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.