Showing your real feelings is not considered a virtue in Japan.
Virtue and vice.
In the old days people valued selflessness. But this generation seems to make a virtue out of selfishness.
“A woman without talent – that’s virtue” - true words from the ancients of a thousand-years ago.
The mind's greatest good is the knowledge of God, and the mind's highest virtue is to know God.
Some learned writers have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram, because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.
In this society where everything is disposable, it is a virtue to use something until it wears out.
The virtue of wool is that it can provide insulation from the cold even when wet
1. Discretion is a virtue worth cultivating. Patience is not one of children virtues.
What virtues do I have?
Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.
It is only the poor who pay cash. That's not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
They say fine words are no virtue if they're insincere and that's him in a nutshell. He's all talk but doesn't mean a word of it.
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Englisch Wort "cnotliwość"(virtue) tritt in Sätzen auf: