Sentence examples for virtue consists in from inspiring English sources

They do not think that virtue consists in subsuming their needs and desires to the authority of tradition.

Political virtue consists in standing for what's right, even — or indeed especially — when it doesn't redound to your own benefit.

Since then music is a pleasure, and virtue consists in rejoicing and loving and hating aright, there is clearly nothing which we are so much concerned to acquire and to cultivate as the power of forming right judgments, and of taking delight in good dispositions and noble actions.

Virtue consists in fully rational selection among them.

Like Helvétius before him, d'Holbach presents an ethics in which virtue consists in enlightened self-interest.

Under the right conditions, courtesy develops into li, which as a virtue consists in the observance of the rites or the virtue of ritual propriety.

There, as in St Cyprian's and any comparable institution, "virtue consisted in winning": the strong and beautiful attracted hero-worship.

Tolerance -- which our culture values over all other virtues -- consists in not imposing your truth on someone else.

Virtues consist in part in dispositions, but are not wholly constituted by dispositions.

Virtue consists not in avoiding wrongdoing, but not even wanting to do wrong.

Both of these types of virtue are inferior to intellectual virtue which consists in the activity of the philosopher (see I 2. 6).