Examples of using "Vertus" in a sentence and their english translations:
One is punished most for one's virtues.
with all their virtues and all their flaws
This medicine is known for its miraculous healing powers.
complete loyalty to France, and his willingness to speak his mind – virtues that were all
Our virtues are, most often, only disguised vices.
Virtues should be sisters, the same way vices are brothers.
can have soporific virtues for the layman of the legal thing.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Virtues and girls are most beautiful before knowing that they are beautiful.
He spends all his time extolling her virtues.
"A king was ours, AEneas; ne'er was born / a man more just, more valiant in the fight, / more famed for piety and deeds of might."
"Doth the name / of sire or uncle make his young heart glow / for deeds of valour and ancestral fame?"
Then Dymas brave / and Hypanis by comrades' hands are slain. / Nor, Panthus, thee thy piety can save, / nor e'en Apollo's wreath preserve thee from the grave.
"Who knows not Troy, th' AEneian house of fame, / the deeds and doers, and the war's renown / that fired the world? Not hearts so dull and tame / have Punic folk; not so is Phoebus known / to turn his back upon our Tyrian town."
A virtue like honesty may be allied to a defect related to honesty, such as being too trusting, too ready to assume that others are as honest as oneself. In such a case we may say, "Hers were the defects of her virtues."