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 VIRTUE VIRTUE

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis. In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. Ovid—Epistoke ex Ponto. Bk. II. 3. 35. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Plautus) Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta. Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. Persius—Satires. III. 38. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Virtue | page = 837 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = For virtue only finds eternal Fame. Petrarch—The Triumph of Fame. Pt. I. L. 183. | Virtus praemium est optimum. Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto. Libertas, salus, vita, res, parentes, Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur; Virtus omnia in se habet; omnia assunt bona, quern penes est virtus. Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country and children are protected and preserved. Virtue has all things in herself; he who has virtue has all things that are good attending him. Plautus—Amphitruo. Act II. 2. 17. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cicero, Claudianus, Diogenes, Gay, Ovid, Silius) Qui per virtutem peritat, non interit. He who dies for virtue, does not perish. Plautus—Captivi. III. 5. 32. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Virtue | page = 837 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to mej Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing. | author = Pope | work = Epilogue to Satires. Dialoguel. L. 137. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Virtue | page = 837 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. What then? Is the reward of virtue bread? | author = Pope | work = Essay on Man. | place = Ep. IV. L. 149. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Virtue | page = 837 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize. | author = Pope | work = Essay on Man. | place = Ep. IV. L. 168. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Virtue | page = 837 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Know then this truth (enough for man to know) "Virtue alone is happiness below." | author = Pope | work = Essay on Man. | place = Ep. IV. L. 309. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = Virtue | page = 837 }}