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Proverbs 11.16:

A gracious woman gets honour,
but she who hates virtue is covered with shame.^*
The timid become destitute,^*
but the aggressive gain riches.

Wisdom of Solomon 4.1:

Better than this is childlessness with virtue,
for in the memory of virtue^* is immortality,
because it is known both by God and by mortals.

Wisdom of Solomon 5.13:

So we also, as soon as we were born, ceased to be,
and we had no sign of virtue to show,
but were consumed in our wickedness.’

Wisdom of Solomon 7.20:

the natures of animals and the tempers of wild animals,
the powers of spirits^* and the thoughts of human beings,
the varieties of plants and the virtues of roots;

Wisdom of Solomon 8.7:

And if anyone loves righteousness,
her labours are virtues;
for she teaches self-control and prudence,
justice and courage;
nothing in life is more profitable for mortals than these.

Ecclesiasticus 42.25:

Each supplements the virtues of the other.
Who could ever tire of seeing his glory?

3 Maccabees 6.1:

Then a certain Eleazar, famous among the priests of the country, who had attained a ripe old age and throughout his life had been adorned with every virtue, directed the elders around him to stop calling upon the holy God, and he prayed as follows:

4 Maccabees 1.2:

For the subject is essential to everyone who is seeking knowledge, and in addition it includes the praise of the highest virtue—I mean, of course, rational judgement.

4 Maccabees 1.8:

but I can demonstrate it best from the noble bravery of those who died for the sake of virtue, Eleazar and the seven brothers and their mother.

4 Maccabees 1.10:

On this anniversary^* it is fitting for me to praise for their virtues those who, with their mother, died for the sake of nobility and goodness, but I would also call them blessed for the honour in which they are held.

4 Maccabees 1.30:

For reason is the guide of the virtues, but over the emotions it is sovereign.

Observe now, first of all, that rational judgement is sovereign over the emotions by virtue of the restraining power of self-control.

4 Maccabees 2.10:

For the law prevails even over affection for parents, so that virtue is not abandoned for their sakes.

4 Maccabees 6.30:

After he said this, the holy man died nobly in his tortures; even in the tortures of death he resisted, by virtue of reason, for the sake of the law.

4 Maccabees 7.22:

and knows that it is blessed to endure any suffering for the sake of virtue, would not be able to overcome the emotions through godliness?

4 Maccabees 9.8:

For we, through this severe suffering and endurance, shall have the prize of virtue and shall be with God, on whose account we suffer;

4 Maccabees 9.18:

through all these tortures I will convince you that children of the Hebrews alone are invincible where virtue is concerned.’

4 Maccabees 9.31:

I lighten my pain by the joys that come from virtue,

4 Maccabees 10.10:

‘We, most abominable tyrant, are suffering because of our godly training and virtue,

4 Maccabees 11.2:

‘I will not refuse, tyrant, to be tortured for the sake of virtue.

4 Maccabees 11.4:

Hater of virtue, hater of humankind, for what act of ours are you destroying us in this way?