Sentence examples for it virtue from inspiring English sources

Of Agathocles, Machiavelli writes that "one cannot call it virtue to kill one's citizens, betray one's friends, to be without faith, without mercy and without religion".

As the historian John Anthony Froude put it, "Virtue and truth produced strength, strength dominion, dominion riches, riches luxury, and luxury weakness and collapse".

As Robespierre put it, terror was but "an emanation of virtue"; without it, virtue remained impotent.

As Descartes defines it, virtue depends upon the employment of reason.

As Shaftesbury put it, "Virtue and interest may be found at last to agree" (C 167).

As this view has it, virtue has a solitary, difficult, Calvinist flavor.

They scored high in novelty-seeking as well in persistence and "self-transcendence". Persistence, the stick-to-it virtue promoted by strong-willed Victorians, may sound like the opposite of novelty-seeking, but the two traits can coexist and balance each other.

So what does it get for its virtue?

But if propaganda has its virtues, it also has its limits.

He's even got his own verb for it: virtuing.

But for all its virtues, it is expensive and inequitable.