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1 Outl | is to be attained through virtue, chief attention must be 2 Outl | those passages in which virtue is praised; such may be 3 Outl | philosophers have extolled virtue. The words of such men should 4 Outl | in the pagan literature virtue is lauded in deeds as well 5 Outl | subordinating all else to virtue.~X. While this ideal will 6 Text, II | indelible the idea of the true virtue, become first initiated 7 Text, IV | passages in which they praise virtue or condemn vice. For just 8 Text, V | the life to come through virtue, our attention is to be 9 Text, V | the philosophers, in which virtue itself is praised. For it 10 Text, V | no small advantage that virtue become a habit with a youth,14 11 Text, V | If not to incite youth to virtue, pray what meaning may we 12 Text, V | pain, that leads toward virtue. Wherefore, on account of 13 Text, V | than so to exhort us to virtue, and so to incite us to 14 Text, V | if any other man praises virtue in a like strain, we will 15 Text, V | of Homer is a praise of virtue, and with him all that is 16 Text, V | seen naked and alone, since virtue served him as a garment. 17 Text, V | Homer very plainly says: 'Be virtue your concern, O men, which 18 Text, V | this one, now to that. But virtue is the only possession that 19 Text, V | We will not exchange our virtue for their gold, for virtue 20 Text, V | virtue for their gold, for virtue is an everlasting possession, 21 Text, V | expressed similar ideas about virtue and vice. I do not remember 22 Text, V | leading through toil to virtue, or its easier alternate, 23 Text, V | before him, who proved to be Virtue and Vice. Though they said 24 Text, VI | several abilities, extolled virtue in their writings. Such 25 Text, VI | on the canvas. To praise virtue in public with brilliant 26 Text, VI | will seek the appearance of virtue rather than the reality. 27 Text, VII(33) | Plutarch, Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great ii. 28 Text, VIII(41)| Plutarch, Of the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander the Great ii. 29 Text, IX | reproach if we hold that virtue is not, in and of itself, 30 Text, IX | ill-favor and in danger for virtue's sake, he shall not swerve 31 Text, IX(60) | draw the simple garb of virtue, but behind I will trail 32 Text, X | were, the silhouette of virtue in the pagan authors. For 33 Text, X | age.' 64 By means he meant virtue, but he placed too great


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