Aristotle believed that virtues consisted of realization of potentials unique to humanity, such as the use of reason.
Since virtue, to you, consists of sacrifice, you have demanded more sacrifices at every successive disaster.
"But virtue does not consist in pretending innocence while placing a burden of crime upon someone else."
If virtue consists in being useful to our fellow citizens, perhaps there were few more virtuous men than Mr. Craig.
Does the virtue consist in the metaphor, or in the man?
They do not think that virtue consists in subsuming their needs and desires to the authority of tradition.
For them, virtue consisted in being birdlike, and fairness didn't enter into it.
A false morality is even established, which makes all the virtue of women consist in chastity, submission, and the forgiveness of injuries.
Love of our neighbour, then, must bear some proportion to self-love, and virtue, to be sure, consists in the due proportion.
His one virtue consisted of his fondness for horses, and in the care he took of the animals under his charge.