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virtuously

Adverb

Meaning

in a chaste and virtuous manner

in a moral manner

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Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature. Chrysippus

Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues. Alasdair MacIntyre

Pursue Virtue virtuously. Thomas Browne

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. Niccolò Machiavelli

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Our world knew, before thou wert born, that when the last cup was drained, it was time to go, - time to rest, - and it knows yet how to do that with calmness. Plato declares that virtue is music, that the life of a sage is harmony. If that be true, I shall die as I have lived, - virtuously. Henryk Sienkiewicz

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