Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue..

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by ….

Listen to presences inside poems..

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself..

Here we are now, entertain us..

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulder….

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously..

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates..

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster..

Perhaps we have more in common by virtue of our common humanity than we have differences by virtue of our religions..

To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor..

Love can tame the wildest..

From virtue all happy states arise..

Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him..

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues..

You don't take a picture, you make a picture..

Justice is happiness according to virtue..

The order of things consents to virtue..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

The future belongs to the free..

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries..