Sentence examples for of every virtue from inspiring English sources

As C. S. Lewis said, courage is not just one virtue but "the form of every virtue at the testing point".

For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy".

Along these lines, Hume maintains that this disposition to "survey ourselves" and seek our own "peace and satisfaction" is the surest guardian of every virtue (EM, 9.10/276).

Courage, said CS Lewis, that great Christian philosopher, is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Just as rationality, a focus on reality, is at the heart of every virtue, so irrationality, evasion of reality (including self-deception), is at the heart of every vice.

To John Lydus, a mid-level bureaucrat of the praetorian prefecture of the East, Peter was a paragon of every virtue, an intelligent, firm but fair administrator and a kind man.

In the States, radio has long been regarded as a crippled form of TV, but Milligan brilliantly exploited every virtue of the form.

The self-proclaimed "maids of honour and guardians of virtue" control every aspect of their production process, mutually collaborating on designs and prototypes and splitting their profits equally.

The self-proclaimed "maids of honor and guardians of virtue" control every aspect of their production process, mutually collaborating on designs and prototypes and splitting their profits equally.

In the Treatise Hume emphasizes that "our sense of every kind of virtue is not natural; but … there are some virtues, that produce pleasure and approbation by means of an artifice or contrivance, which arises from the circumstances and necessities of mankind" (T 3.2.1.1).

And the master virtue of bringing practical reasonableness into all one's deliberations, choices, and carrying out of choices — the virtue of prudentia, a virtue both intellectual (of one's intelligence) and moral (of one's whole will and character) — is part of the definition, content, and influence of every other moral virtue: ST I-II q. 65 a. 1, q. 66 a. 3 ad 3, etc.