Sentence examples for virtue for himself from inspiring English sources

Confucius served as an exemplar to his students, perhaps of the virtue of ren, though he never claimed the virtue for himself.

The arrangement is almost absurdly harmonious: the classics professor who has gone to the land (not just any land, but land that's forgotten and seemingly irredeemable) and found virtue there, for himself and ultimately for his customers, who by buying his wines are buying into Schoener's vision and thereby becoming something more than just elitist wine collectors.

Ms. Rand was an ardent atheist who considered the cross a symbol of how "a man of perfect virtue" sacrificed himself for a bunch of losers.

And if you believe it is the highest virtue for a person to remain for ever himself, it is hard then to assert that the highest virtue is for a person to be for ever someone else.

I'd be extra-suspicious of any ethicist (or baker or harpsichordist, for that matter) who offered himself up as a paragon of virtue for all others to emulate.

In June 1315, Glarentza was captured by the Aragonese troops of the infante Ferdinand of Majorca, who claimed the princely title of Achaea for himself by virtue of his marriage to Isabella of Sabran, granddaughter of William II of Villehardouin.

But Mr. Mubarak also turned his risk-aversion into a virtue, portraying himself as heroic for being canny enough not to be lured into rash decisions.

Patience hasn't been a rewarding virtue for TiVo shareholders.

Humility, absent from The Divine Image, is clearly not the usual Christian virtue for Blake.

How is it a signal virtue for an art other than poetry to be poetic?

Mr. Hua's greatest virtue for Mao appears to have been personal loyalty.