People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.
Virtue is harmony.
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
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