Sentence examples for the only virtue from inspiring English sources

But generosity is not the only virtue donors must show.

And, fortunately, ambition is not the only virtue to applaud in this rare undertaking.

At that time failure seemed to me to be the only virtue.

"The only virtue I claim,"he said, "is truth and nonviolence.

If Sarkozy somehow pulls off an upset win, it will mean more of the same European economic orthodoxy — the insistence that fiscal responsibility is the only virtue and austerity the universal answer.

Andy Grove, a co-founder of Intel, was constantly looking for "the black cloud in the silver lining .A second myth that Mr Collins punctures is that innovation is the only virtue that counts.

And nor are they the only virtues to have been sacrificed in Egypt.

"For a fisherman, the only virtues are patience, tolerance and humility," he intones with a priestly gravity.

Towering outside the 16th century church of San Giorgio Maggiore as part of an exhibition of the British artist's work at the Venice Biennale, the piece's only virtue seems to be its sheer size, which jars shockingly with the Palladian architecture of its surroundings.

Fortitude is the only true virtue, because virtue resides in the will, since our actions, to which we assign moral qualifications, proceed from the will.

Although the Stoics are, with respect to the good, most famous for the claim that only virtue is good, they define the good as benefit.