In the way of "superior virtue", the state prior to the separation of the One into the two is spontaneously attained.

Cleanliness, we are constantly told by tedious folk, is next to godliness, but I suspect it is a superior virtue.

On the contrary, the idea of superior virtue had always been associated in my mind with that of superior power.

Thea resented both his proprietary tone and his superior virtue.

Political authority in China, then as now, is based on the notion of superior virtue.

The Master said of Tsze-chien, "Of superior virtue indeed is such a man!

He admonished America not to carry an air of "superior virtue" toward the Soviets.

"Will one authoritarian dynasty be replaced, once again, by another, in the name of national unity and superior virtue?"

Though he acknowledges their superior virtues, his heart still lies with Célimène.

But not everyone accepted asceticism as a superior virtue.