"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues," according to Cicero, a first century Roman philosopher.
In our study, Korean physicians reported responsibility and obligation as core medical professionalism virtues in their practice, which reflects essential virtues according to the medical code of ethics.
VIRTUE, according to Cardinal Newman, a 19th-century theologian, is its own reward.
Or they elaborated a separate-and-unequal theory of virtue according to which female virtue is fundamentally better than male virtue.
Instead, they provided a separate-but-equal theory of virtue according to which male and female virtues are simply different.
"Virtue," according to Leibniz, "is the habit of acting according to wisdom" (PW, "Felicity," §1, p. 83).
For persons' virtue, according to Shaftesbury, consists not in the actions they perform, but in their motives for performing them.
Radical Islamists advance fundamental Shari'a law, a system predicated on the forced imposition of virtue according to the Quran.
The VCP, obviously, is not known for its virtue, and without virtue, according to Robespierre, terror is powerless.
Patience and fortitude, the negotiators' main virtues, are another.
