Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.
For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
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