They present a shorter cut to the object than through the highway of the moral virtues.
The four moral or cardinal virtues, of whom Prudence directs the others.
There's no moral virtue in the truth of most of our true beliefs.
But it's wrong to suggest that anyone has a monopoly on moral virtue here.
Whoever recommends any moral virtues, really does no more than is implied in the terms themselves.
Moreover, according to Socrates, this state of the soul, moral virtue, is the most important good.
Was it, perhaps, that they were of higher moral virtue than other men?
You are going to a school where this basic moral virtue is daily reinforced by precept and example.
Normally they drank only water, as women drinking wine were thought of low moral virtue.
It would seem, however, also to need external equipment but little, or less than moral virtue does.