Virtue in example sentence

Thus far I have had a smooth story to tell of myself, and in all this part of my life I not only had the reputation of living in a very good family, and a family noted and respected everywhere for virtue and sobriety, and for every valuable thing; but I had the character too of a very sober, modest, and virtuous young woman, and such I had always been; neither had I yet any occasion to think of anything else, or to know what a temptation to wickedness meant.

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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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