Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral PowersSection IV. Moral Affections
3. Moral Conditions
944. Virtue.
merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit; self-control (resolution) [See Resolution]; self-denial (temperance) [See Temperance].
well-doing; good actions, good behavior; discharge -, fulfillment -, performance- of duty; well-spent life; innocence [See Innocence].
morals; ethics (duty) [See Duty]; cardinal virtues.
[SCIENCE OF VIRTUE] aretaics (contrasted with eudemonism); aretology.
set an example, set a good example; be on one’s -good, – best- behavior.
exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saintlike; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike.
- Esse quam videri bonus malebat.—Sallust
- Schönheit vergeht Tugend besteht.
- Virtue the greatest of all monarchies.—Swift
- Virtus laudatur et alget.—Juvenal
- Virtus vincit invidiam.
- Every noble life leaves the fibre of it in the work of the world.—Ruskin
- The nobleness That lovely spirits gather from distress.—Masefield
- He had the russet-apple mind That betters as the weathers worsen.—Masefield
- Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.—Chesterton