Sentence examples for virtue itself from inspiring English sources

But what good is that when virtue itself is quickly becoming a term of derision?

That idea calls to mind the statement of Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet: "Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied".

Aristotle had it right: The only way human beings can develop true character is through constant practice, until the ethical virtue itself becomes habit.

Substituting something that's trivial-but-noisily-immediate for something that's virtuous — even smally virtuous, like a game we play or ponder — breeds an ugly cynicism about virtue itself.

Expecting government to "defend our virtues" suggests the author misunderstands virtue itself, which can only be developed by individuals freely making choices, and suffering or enjoying their consequences.

Moore and Hastings Rashdall) tries to meet the difficulty by advocating a plurality of ends and including among them the attainment of virtue itself, which, as Mill affirmed, "may be felt a good in itself, and desired as such with as great intensity as any other good".

But it is not an end in itself, nor is it a virtue in itself.

But is authenticity a virtue by itself?

was a virtue unto itself and needed no further justification.

But neither cosmopolitanism nor parochialism is a virtue in itself.

Apparently, Mr. Brooks sees audacity as a virtue unto itself.