Book, Chapter

 1        1, X     |       to the vicious and to the virtuous, have rashly concluded that
 2        1, LXVIII|    others, as a pattern of most virtuous life, in order that His
 3        2, XLVIII|       of those who were deaf to virtuous words, listen readily to
 4        3, XXV   |      able to show that they are virtuous who practise the art of
 5        3, XXIX  |         man--and probably not a virtuous one--to be stronger than
 6        3, LI    |  evinced their desire towards a virtuous life, introduce them then,
 7        3, LXIII |       Plato) that "the good and virtuous man walketh humbly and orderly;"
 8        3, LXXI  |        not betaken himself to a virtuous life, and casts off no one
 9        3, LXXIV |       to gain the wicked or the virtuous? But it is impossible to
10        3, LXXIV |       is impossible to gain the virtuous, because they have already
11        4, III   |      but who were of themselves virtuous and perfect, evil being
12        4, V     |        is making progress (in a virtuous life), or who is already
13        4, V     |     changing from a wicked to a virtuous, from a dissolute to a temperate,
14        4, VII   |        who accept it may become virtuous and be saved, while those
15        4, X     |         to those who have lived virtuous lives, and in which are
16        4, XXIV  |     creatures. Even the race of virtuous and blessed beings would
17        4, XXIV  |   perfect, and endowed with all virtuous qualities.~
18        4, XXV   |     especially of those who are virtuous; and inferior, because evil
19        4, XXIX  |    entertain the hope that by a virtuous life, and by acting in all
20        4, XXIX  |         reason," or rather, "We virtuous, who act according to reason."
21        4, XXIX  |         is perfect. No good and virtuous man, then, is a "worm rolling
22        4, LIII  |         human nature to adopt a virtuous life, than the belief or
23        4, LIII  |    arguments which dispose to a virtuous life.~
24        4, LIX   |    rational beings are the most virtuous or most worthless of mankind.
25        4, LIX   |       men, as having received a virtuous soul, and to reject and
26        4, LXIV  |        same way, with regard to virtuous souls, there are neither
27        4, LXX   |         vile, but that the most virtuous men, too, will be of the
28        4, LXXXI |         which exemplify certain virtuous tendencies and workings,
29        4, XCVII |     intelligence. Yet it is the virtuous alone who are truly wise,
30        5, X     |         God on account of their virtuous lives, and who had heard
31        5, X     |         heaven are rational and virtuous beings, and have been illuminated
32        5, XXIV  |       especially if it had been virtuous, ought not to be cast out.
33        5, XXXVI |        man from being noble and virtuous. If Ammon, then, forbade
34        5, LVII  | esteemed, their possession of a virtuous life, and their withdrawal
35        6, IV    |        a happier world) after a virtuous life, they pass from those
36        6, XXVIII|        wise man, or a person of virtuous character! What, then, could
37        6, XXXVI |        to him who follows after virtuous pursuits. The subject of
38        6, LIV   |  properly speaking, virtues and virtuous actions are good, as, properly
39        6, LIV   |        evils, and performs such virtuous actions, will, as one who
40        6, LV    |    while those who have lived a virtuous life, or performed virtuous
41        6, LV    |     virtuous life, or performed virtuous actions, will be in the
42        6, LXIII |         God," receives into his virtuous soul the traits of God's
43        7, IV    |      served as a hindrance to a virtuous life; for to that which
44        8, LXII  |    profit lies in virtue and in virtuous action, he would not have