Sentence examples for on virtues from inspiring English sources

Peng wrote in calligraphy a Chinese aphorism on virtues and presented it as a personal gift to Obama.

It can also be driven by, say, my admiration of a character who is long on virtues I am short on (the moral courage of Atticus Finch, the limpid goodness of Alyosha Karamazov), or, most interestingly, by my wish to be a character who is unlike me in ways I don't admire or even like.

A combination of Platonic and Stoic influences is also manifest in another short treatise by Plethon, On Virtues.

In particular, his treatises On Virtues and Morals and On Faith and Laws are of great importance for his moral philosophy.

This may be due, in part, to the specialization of teachers (Melanchthon not agreeing that all knowledge rises from the senses, Cremonini disinterested in moral philosophy and thus not making statements on virtues, …).

Thus, William posits at least some innate concepts; he notes, for example, in On Virtues and Morals that the concept of the true (veri) is innate (OO I, 124a).

There are, of course, many takes on the virtues of walking.

At his confirmation hearings for the post of secretary of state he rode roughshod over his interrogators ("No one has a monopoly on virtue, not even you, senator").

"No one party has a monopoly on virtue.

But the unending scandals of the scandalmongers have made one thing clear: neither party has a lock on virtue.

After all the sermons on virtue, you can be half-pregnant!