The Virtues of the Greek Sages

The two virtues most celebrated by ancient moralists were fortitude and temperance, as relating to the government of a man in his private capacity. But neither these nor any other virtues possessed by these two were at all owing to any lessons or doctrines of a sect. And if it should here be objected, why does not Christianity still produce the same effects? It is easy to answer first that although the number of pretended Christians be great, yet that of true believers in proportion to the other was never so small. Of this truth most of the apostles, with many thousand martyrs, are a cloud of witnesses beyond exception.