Sentence examples for be a virtuous quality from inspiring English sources

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Do you consider greed to be a virtuous quality?

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For men in the restaurant industry, it's a virtuous quality to be edgy and unapproachable.

Rebellion isn't known to be a virtuous, desirable spiritual quality, as Samuel clearly understood, and I submit it is not very presidential either unless you are seeking to run a coven.

He tried to be a virtuous patient.

I am not understood to be a virtuous person.

I am understood to be a virtuous person.

It should be a virtuous circle.

The motive of acting virtuously cannot be the standard or basic motive to virtuous action, since, according to Hume, what makes an act virtuous is its expression of a virtuous motive, which in turn reflects a virtuous quality of character (T 477).

So when one says that "such a man did well and worthily, his conduct is highly approvable" (EAP 5.7, 673), one predicates of this man's action a virtuous quality.

Aristotle defends the idea that happiness consists in being a virtuous person over a complete life, and, in turn, the idea that being a virtuous person requires not only that one have virtuous qualities and dispositions, but also that one act on them.

The result is a virtuous circle.

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