natural virtue

noun

1. (especially among the scholastics) any moral virtue of which humankind is capable, especially the cardinal virtues: justice, temperance, prudence, and fortitude.

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Instead of following the rigid training and rituals required by Confucius, they sought to liberate the natural virtue within.

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The Moon has many interesting natural virtues for scientific and commercial opportunity.

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Only liberate money motives from the world by giving everyone the same, and imagine how people's "natural virtues" would be set free from "trade union and governing class corruption and tyranny".

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His martyrdom, 441 Juvenal, on the natural virtue of man, i.

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The Divine hand was stayed, or rather, as St. Augustine says, an unsurpassed natural greatness was the reward of certain natural virtues, degraded as they were in unnatural abominations.

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