natural virtue
Americannoun
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Instead of following the rigid training and rituals required by Confucius, they sought to liberate the natural virtue within.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2014
Man is naturally in tune with the divine in nature until he lets himself be corrupted away from his original innocence and natural virtue by organized society.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, in the case of a husband, we must remember that this love of being occasionally flattered by his wife is absolutely a necessary and natural virtue.
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)
Beatrice lifts him through the spheres of Paradise by-78- contemplation; because the highest summit attained by reason and natural virtue is but the starting point of the true Christian's journey.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
And it has often happened that a disposition of great natural virtue has been lost before it had any opportunity of benefiting the republic.
From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius
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