virtue, n.All

A Virtue is a character trait that a person needs in order to have eudaimonia-that is, in order to live a good life. The right thing to do is what a virtuous agent would do in the circumstances.

A Virtue is acquired by habit.

Virtue is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in provence, in constantinople, in london, and in paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

Virtue is about living fully... but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

Virtue is, along with vice, always put in motion by interest.

Virtue is a kind of health in that it is the beauty and good habit of the soul.

A Virtue is like a city set upon a hill in that it cannot be hid.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.