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
High sense of the Stoics of the natural virtue of man, and of the power of his will, 195, 196.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
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)
Here it appears, at the same time, that Erasmus knew, be it half in jest, the conception of natural virtue and happiness of naked islanders in a savage state.
From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan
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