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Example sentences for: virtue

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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here.
On the NYT Op-Ed page, Garry Wills argues that the true test of a presidential candidate is not temperament or virtue but the shrewd ability to communicate with a constituency.
The French philosopher François La Rochefoucauld famously praised hypocrisy as the socially useful "homage that vice pays to virtue."
In 1962 he had become the leader of the Illinois delegation by virtue of seniority, and Daley decided it was time for him to run for the Senate, in a kamikaze challenge to the Republican incumbent, Everett Dirksen.
All around the Mediterranean, modesty was considered the primary female virtue, its public expression necessary for an ordered human society.