Virtue

(noun.) the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong.

(noun.) a particular moral excellence.

(noun.) morality with respect to sexual relations.

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• And still the unjust must appear just; that is 'the homage which vice pays to virtue. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• I suppose the virtue to belong to my companion, not to myself; and observe what follows from this alteration. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• His eyes want all that spirit, that fire, which at once announce virtue and intelligence. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Virtue is free, and as a man honours or dishonours her he will have more or less of her; the responsibility is with the chooser--God is justified. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• You looked surprised to-day when you heard him tell me that I had made a virtue of necessity in marrying him. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Happy people, who enjoy so many living examples of ancient virtue, and have masters ready to instruct them in the wisdom of all former ages! 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• This is most complimentary to the virtue of Prince Bladud's tears, and strongly corroborative of the veracity of this legend. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The same truth may be proved still more evidently by that reasoning, which proved justice in general to be an artificial virtue. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• At least it must be owned, that heroic virtue, being as unusual, is as little natural as the most brutal barbarity. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• But Horsfall has this virtue, added the surgeon--drunk or sober, she always remembers to obey _me_. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She did not at all resemble either a paragon or a prude; and yet I am the only one of all our family who am not afraid of her wit or her virtue. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• They are better authorities than I am, for they know what virtue is, and I don't. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Prudence was never a cardinal virtue of the Kentucky boy. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• But Fate intervened enviously and prevented her from receiving the reward due to such immaculate love and virtue. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But this, in my opinion, is not a sufficient reason for excluding them from the catalogue of virtues. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• He thinks I am perfect: furnished with all sorts of sterling qualities and solid virtues, such as I never had, nor intend to have. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• This is not the case with the natural virtues. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Two virtues remain; temperance and justice. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Whatever happened, he knew, she would always be loyal, gallant and unresentful; and that pledged him to the practice of the same virtues. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• To call them virtues in their isolation is like taking the skeleton for the living body. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Perhaps it will appear afterwards, that our sense of some virtues is artificial, and that of others natural. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes, said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• With all these virtues, one penny a square! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• An eloquent catalogue appeared in a weekly print, describing his virtues, his magnificence, his talents, and his good actions. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The man never trod ground whose virtues and services would have sustained him in that place that day, against such denunciation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• All the moral and Christian virtues bound in black Morocco, complete! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• And is not a similar method to be pursued about the virtues, which are also four in number? 柏拉图. 理想国.

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