Though he behaved bravely during the attempted coup of 1981, this merciless biography gives him short shrift as an exemplar of moral virtue.

Secularists do not have a monopoly of modern moral virtue.

We love to present our natural tight-fistedness as some sort of moral virtue.

Even this proves too much for his moral virtue.

Although cleanliness was a moral virtue, descriptions suggest that a surgeon was as likely to wash his hands after an operation as before.