But sleep also fearlessly comes over us with perfect safety, no care is there, no lamenting. Let us search out all these things, and we shall find that virtue, like a truly kind mother, places us in safety, while vice is a treacherous thing, and full of danger. He cannot bear the tribunal of his own conscience. Not only those who are without, but his inward thoughts affect him likewise, and suffer him not to be in quiet. He said not, look to praise, but do praiseworthy actions, yet not for the sake of praise.
Whatsoever things are honorable.
Give no cause of stumbling, saith he, nor handle of accusation. He wills us ever to be in these things, to care for these things, to think on these things. For if we will be at peace with each other, God too will be with us, but if we raise up war, the God of peace will not be with us. For nothing is so hostile to the soul as vice. That is, peace and virtue place it in safety.