We recognize that, with one part of themselves, they may sincerely hold views that we abhor, while, with another, they may exercise virtues that we admire.
It is in pursuing and using them that one exercises virtue, for instance.
Since possessing and exercising virtue is happiness, happiness does not include such things as health, pleasure, and wealth.
He said he'd watched Bercow exercising virtues of impartiality, courage, authority.
If private property involves the wiser and more efficient use of resources, it is because someone has exercised virtues of prudence, industry, and self-restraint.
During those festivities, Pope John Paul II called St. Thom the politicians' patron, saying the saint, a lawyer and diplomat, had demonstrated that government service is an exercise of virtue.
If they responded differently to their challenges, it was partly a consequence of character, but weaknesses of character could and should be overcome by a strenuous exercise of virtue.
However, Zhu Xi states that merely understanding the Pattern is insufficient for the exercise of virtue.
Furthermore, civil and religious liberties are necessary for the exercise of virtue.
The exercise of virtue is not, however, a passive process, but requires the free exercise of the individual will.
