Virtus præmium 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, quem 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. (See also CICERO, CLAUDIANUS, DIOGENES, GAY, OVID, SILIUS)

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Qui per virtutem peritat, non interit.
He who dies for virtue, does not perish.
PLAUTUS-Captivi. III. 5. 32.

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Virtue may choose the high or low degree,
"Tis just alike to virtue, and to me;
Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king,
She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
POPE-Epilogue to Satires. Dialogue I. L. 137.

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But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. What then? Is the reward of virtue bread? POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 149.

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The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize.

POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 168.

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Know then this truth (enough for man to know) "Virtue alone is happiness below."

POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 309.