Our argument must be drawn from political virtue, not, so far as this is supposed to be different, from metaphysics.

Do you really think that your character is so mysterious, and that I am too stupid to tell vice from virtue?

A daughter whose beauty proceeds from virtue.

Thus, while "public morals" were derived from natural virtue, its ultimate source lay in the public religion of Christianity.

In the prince's eyes, nobility derived from virtue, and virtue from service to himself.

It had everything from human virtue down to the depths of depravity.

But he would also not be the first boomer to squeeze value from virtue, and his policies obviously have a practical point.

The progress of the novel chronicles Ambrosio's fall from innocence and virtue to complete evil.

Such a lapse from virtue even if confessed in private would call for the severest punishment.