"true virtue" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a particular type of moral character or goodness that is seen as admirable and honorable. For example: "He was known for his true virtue and generosity to those in need."
But "don't hold true virtue to be a cliché in literature".
It now preaches that winning, however it must be achieved, is the only true virtue.
Aristotle says nothing different from this, but he also distinguishes true virtue from its specious simulacra.
Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen has argued, for example, that "McCain's true virtue is that he is a lousy politician.
In writing "A Simple Heart," his tribute to Sand — a story that makes a true virtue of love but refuses to derive any moral from it — Flaubert briefly experienced a buoyancy he had rarely known and would never recover.
It is a shame that her conclusion seems to be that happiness is found "in a crowd" of dissembling people rather than in a careful calculation of how to live a good life nurturing true virtue as an individual.
Citing 14th century annals that have been lost, the bishop, Gisli Oddsson, wrote: "The inhabitants of Greenland, of their own free will, abandoned the true faith and the Christian religion, having already forsaken all good ways and true virtues, and joined themselves with the folk of America".
Now, 25 years later, and more than a decade after his death, this "selected" volume of his work has arrived, and it will help readers get beyond the seemingly congenital bitterness, beyond the glow of collegial reminiscence, to arrive at Nemerov's true virtues as a poet.
Arguing that moral virtues truly have no gender, Mary Wollstonecraft regards "feminine" virtues as perversions of these true virtues and laments women's conscription into a bogus ideal (Wollstonecraft 1792).
Our Lord, through words and deeds, "revealed the true virtues that restore mankind to paradise lost".
The premise of his keynote was "the best way to prepare students to succeed in the marketplace is through the tried and true virtues of liberal education".
