Sentence examples for virtue being from inspiring English sources

So much for virtue being its own reward.

But this isn't a movie about good guys finishing last or virtue being rewarded.

Gorse has acclimated so readily that it has become a menace, spreading over good and bad land alike, its only virtue being as a nursery for regenerating bush.

There was much talk of the need for "leadership" and co-operative working – neither virtue being very common in today's NHS.

Hall got one thing right: if Keaton was indeed a stoic, he was one in the classical Greek sense, of maintaining self-control and discipline as a virtue, of virtue being in inherent harmony with nature, and of virtue being the sole possible source of happiness (that of the character of Steamboat Bill, Jr., if not of Keaton himself).

The French philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1889 1973) is not individualistic like Sartre (or at least the early Sartre, whose thinking was modified by Marxism); instead, he stresses the communal character of human existence the highest virtue being fidelity.

Another virtue is simplicity.

Virtue is male?

(Riches without virtue are ruinous).

Its opposite virtue is chastity.

His chief virtue was independence.