'man of virtue' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe someone who practices morality and ethics, such as in a sentence like "He was known to everyone around him as a man of virtue."
South Korea needs a leader who is a man of "virtue, patience and forgiveness", he said in a written interview recently.
In Chinese historical tradition Wenwang was depicted as intelligent and benevolent, a man of virtue who won popularity among his contemporaries and expanded the realm of the Zhou.
This job which, thanks to Mr Pitt's fumblings, looks brutally difficult, pays only $150,000 a year a wonderfully uncomfortable hairshirt for a public man of virtue.
Students recite by heart from Pushkin's "Yevgeny Onegin" ("My uncle was a man of virtue.... .....) and tackle algebra as early as fourth grade.
Craig Murray is a political activist and former ambassador to Uzbekistan An ambassador is a man of virtue sent abroad to lie for his country.
"Tom Landry was everything the world believed him to be," his son, Tom Jr., said at a memorial service yesterday in Dallas for the former Cowboys coach, who died Saturday of leukemia at 75. "He was a man of virtue, of high moral character, a man whose talents and hard work propelled him to the top of his profession".
Let us remember, he counseled, that "many men of virtue" in other states have found amendments desirable.
The founders believed that for a republican form of government to succeed, it should be populated with men of virtue.
They hoped to create what John Adams called a "natural aristocracy," comprising men of virtue and talent who would govern on behalf of all.
"I go on the great republican principle that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom," he said at the Virginia ratifying convention of 1788.
But I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom.
