Virtue in example sentence

In obedience to this opinion, the fourth finger of the left hand is thought to contain a virtue that belongs to no other branch of that digitated member; and it is ordinarily encircled, during the solemnization of wedlock, with a cincture or ring, as if to chain that affection to the marriage state, which is best secured by the graces of the female character."

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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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