As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Virtue is harmony.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.