Virtue in example sentence

SentriesThe notion that people have inalienable rights – the right to free speech and association, or the right not to be tortured – simply by virtue of their existence as human beings: that notion is, of course, a fiction.

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What we desperately need, beyond, or along with, better rules and reasonably smart incentives, is we need virtue.

And in particular, the virtue that we need most of all is the virtue that Aristotle called "practical wisdom."

Together they comprise practical wisdom, which Aristotle thought was the master virtue.

When this country first encountered genuine diversity in the 1960s, we adopted tolerance as the core civic virtue with which we would approach that.

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