"Friendship is a public virtue, not a threat," he said.

Fame, the author writes, "was deemed by Washington's society its highest reward for public virtue."

Occasionally, a dissertation has public virtue as well as private.

And today free markets have turned private vices into public virtues.

And librarians have long been the guardians of public virtue.

Their work displays the public virtues of their personal defects.

His policy was to vote for legislation on the side of "justice, economy, and public virtue."

AND depending on where you come from, government money for museums is a public virtue or a burden.

We could also talk about Mandeville and private vice for public virtue.

He believed that public virtue would increase as people became more educated.