Consistent capitalization, particularly of a noun, also tends to convey the intent to personify, thus Love, Truth, and Sympathy would be interpreted quite differently from love, truth, and sympathy. This was fashionable and correct in the eighteenth century, but, alas, not any longer. Whichever you choose, please do not capitalize the word (unless, of course, it falls at the beginning of a sentence). Italicizing the term is acceptable too, although if you are using any foreign language terms or phrases in your paper, standard form dictates that those must be italicized, so there can be some resultant confusion if foreign terms and words under analysis are italicized. This is to prevent any confusion that might occur if the term is one that might be mistaken for a word that is simply functioning as part of the sentence, rather than a term under analysis (not such a problem with a word like sympathy, but really confusing with more common words).
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