Sentence examples for between virtue from inspiring English sources

If someone lacks virtue, she may have any of several moral vices, or she may be characterized by a condition somewhere in between virtue and vice, such as continence or incontinence.

Hercules (very much of two minds) is seated between Virtue and Vice.

To weigh and question, to wonder over the balance between virtue and lapse.

His history, moreover, takes place in a nonhistorical context a contest between virtue and fortune.

The line between virtue and vice meanders madly — effective government on one side, connections on the other".

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene Through his nameless "whisky priest", Greene asks us to decide between virtue and vice in this 1953 novel.

We also do ourselves no favors by choosing sides between virtues.

He also rejects the distinction between virtues and natural talents, which legislators, "divines" and modern moralists defend by claiming that the moral virtues are voluntary, whereas natural talents aren't.

Some, for instance, are concerned with the notion of pleasure as a good and pain as an evil; with pleasure as a supplement of activity supporting its connection with happiness; with the relation between virtues and vices; with virtue as a mean; and with the concept of the involuntary and the conditions of responsibility.

Crucially Thomas Aquinas, who thought reason and faith were complementary, made a distinction between virtues that were natural versus supernatural.

The present study aims to increase knowledge on virtues by exploring the relationships between virtues and PIU.