These seeming flaws are secret virtues.
His other poetic works include didactic verse; Les Amours et nouveaux échanges des pierres précieuses (1576), a commentary on exotic stones and their inherent secret virtues written in the tradition of the medieval lapidaries; and La Reconnue (1577; "The Rediscovered Daughter"), a comedy in verse based on Plautus' Casina.
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues".
Mr. Pasko's supporters do not dispute that he had access to military secrets by virtue of his job.
"H.P. is taking the position that there is going to be the inevitable disclosure of secrets by virtue of the position that Mark Hurd has at Oracle," said Larry C. Drapkin, a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, who handles trade secret cases.
Rather, it became apparent that "anything goes" is a virtue — the secret of science's success.
Security obtains from legitimate users being able to transform information by virtue of a secret key or keys i.e., information known only to them.
It's an honest school with a set of secrets, the mundane manners of living left dormant in museums, archives and the baseboards of the dorms themselves, secrets made magical by mere virtue of their survival.
Spy novels embrace clichés — the double agent, the bomb-rigged briefcase — and "Assassin of Secrets," published last fall, made a virtue of this tendency, piling one trope onto another to create a story that rang with wry knowingness.
They could often be seen sporting their Kim Jong-il badges and cooking food in the shared kitchen, extolling the virtues of a secret ingredient from their homeland North Korean MSG.
