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
He was not content with mere natural virtue, but insisted that humility must be Christian, given birth to, and animated by charity.
From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Camus, Jean Pierre
Nevertheless, an infallible text exists to enable us to discriminate a natural facility of manner from ideal gentleness, and qualities that consist in nothing more than natural virtue from genuine moral worth of character.
From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Schiller, Friedrich
There remains to the philosopher the natural virtue of religion, which is a part of justice.
From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.
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