Chapter

 1 4 |           who, on account of his virtue and his knowledge of many
 2 10|       that he was not of perfect virtue, greatness, and power, since
 3 20|  Marcellus originated Honour and Virtue.~
 4 29|      should be so. I ask whether virtue is a good or an evil. It
 5 29|     denied that it is a good. If virtue is a good, vice, on the
 6 29|      account, because it opposes virtue, and virtue is on this account
 7 29|   because it opposes virtue, and virtue is on this account a good,
 8 29| overthrows vice, it follows that virtue cannot exist without vice;
 9 29|         away vice, the merits of virtue will be taken away. For
10 29|    placing the subject-matter of virtue in evils which He made for
11 33|     lastly, that it be sought by virtue. Let us see, therefore,
12 33|       cannot be attained without virtue. Aristippus, the founder
13 33|      better views, who said that virtue was the chief good. But
14 33|          was the chief good. But virtue cannot be the chief good,
15 33|        who connected honour with virtue, as though it were possible
16 33|      though it were possible for virtue at any time to be separated
17 33|        may happen to him without virtue. For he is not to be considered
18 34|         to wisdom, the latter to virtue; and justice comprises both.
19 34|         that he may exercise the virtue with which he is endued.
20 34|          which he is endued. For virtue is the enduring of evils.
21 35|         advantage of justice and virtue, if they shall have nothing
22 35|         but evil in life? But if virtue, which despises all earthly
23 35|          and to the soul, and to virtue. We are only directed to
24 35|     Therefore God proposes to us virtue and justice, that we may
25 38|          the Stoics, who praises virtue, judged that pity, which
26 38|      pity, which is a very great virtue, should be cut away, as
27 39| professes that great and perfect virtue in the contempt of all things,
28 39|        not how they could defend virtue, who took away modesty.
29 40|       they were ignorant, nor of virtue, of which they falsely boast.
30 42|    excellence and majesty. He is virtue, He is reason, He is the
31 43|        the flesh, He might teach virtue and patience not only by
32 50|      sent to men as a teacher of virtue, for the perfection of His
33 55|     asserting and extolling that virtue with the greatest praise,
34 55|          a few only that highest virtue, that is, the common good
35 57|  faithfulness towards God by all virtue and by all patience. Let
36 62|          is the part of the same virtue to despise them. The pleasure
37 62|        sweet food,--all of which virtue ought strongly to resist,
38 64|       FROM FORBIDDEN THINGS.~Let virtue alone please us, whose reward
39 70|          soul is understood from virtue and pleasure. Pleasure is
40 70|        is common to all animals, virtue belongs only to man; the
41 70|    defence of faith and justice, virtue neither fears want, nor
42 70|       contrary to nature, either virtue is foolishness, if it stands
43 73|       contest, equip himself for virtue, that if by any chance an
44 73|       gain for the merits of his virtue either the crown of faith,