Because elves live for so many years, we consider courtesy to be the highest social virtue.
The old men of pleasure (with their tooral ooral) got at least some social and communal virtue out of pleasure.
She regarded courtesy as the most important social virtue, however, and she'd just been discourteous to her hostess.
Stability is the highest social virtue because it leads to lasting happiness.
A man must be respected by those of his community, and in this country, where fighting courage and skill were respected social virtues, he could not leave.
Thus, while "public religion" was an important source of social virtue, it was not the only source.
He believed that the practice of social virtues alone could advance a culture and lead to economic success.
It was here that he said, "The art of any country is the exponent of its social and political virtues."
The Professor had genius, but lacked the great social virtue of resignation.
Capitalism where greed has become a social virtue and Democracy where only the ,01% really are represented - have failed.