Sentence examples for virtue by which from inspiring English sources

It was certainly the virtue by which he lived, and the reason he was able to pursue his parallel careers in literature and medicine.

As a theological virtue, by which we love God above all things and our neighbours as ourselves for his sake, it seems remote until we encounter it enfleshed, so to say, in the life of another – in acts of kindness, generosity and self-sacrifice.

The principle of democracy is political virtue, by which Montesquieu means "the love of the laws and of our country" (SL 4.5), including its democratic constitution.

This revisionary tendency in his thought is tempered, however, by IIIp54, where he presents pity, and also the other traditional Christian virtues of humility and repentance, as, if not genuine virtues themselves, at least means to virtue, by which people are made more able to come to learn to follow the dictates of reason.

The full range of actions induced by clozapine is not yet fully understood.,,, The virtue by which clozapine is particularly efficacious in treatment resistant schizophrenia, and in reducing violence, may be because of this diverse receptor profile.

Temperance and moderation, for Holbach are the best means to the enjoyment of wine and food, whereas in the views he criticizes they are virtues by which we deny the value of such enjoyment.

For as Thomas says, the rational virtues "are dispositions by which man is fittingly disposed with reference to the nature by which he is a man.

It is the finest of virtues and technai, by which men, public and private, become capable of ruling and benefiting other men and themselves (IV.ii.11).11

Plato believed that the object of politics was virtue, and that only a few would ever thoroughly understand the science by which virtue could be attained and that those trained few should rule.

And who would have imagined that the film "Groundhog Day," in which the annoyingly smug Bill Murray character comes to see the point of humility and love, epitomizes the process by which virtue is inculcated?

This is the fundamental mechanism by which virtue is rewarded and vice is punished.