There were divers other plants, which I had no notion of or understanding about, that might, perhaps, have virtues of their own, which I could not find out.
The virtue of something is an advantage or benefit that it has, especially in comparison with something else. There was no virtue in returning to Calvi the way I had come
initiates the unity of goodness, greatness etc in one good, great, etc substance
{i} goodness; uprightness, integrity; morality (especially in sexual conduct); good quality
an excellence of moral or intellectual character Plato, Aristotle and many subsequent philosophers explored the nature of the virtues, their relations among themselves and to non-virtuous states, their place in our psychology and their role in achieving happiness Virtues offer a basis for ethical life rivalling those provided by Kantian principles or a utilitarian calculation of happiness, although an account of ethics might reasonably include principles, consequences and virtues A recent revival of virtue ethics has been motivated in part by dissatisfaction with the abstract universal nature of the main alternative views The emphasis on cultivating virtues in concrete human individuals could correct this, but it is not clear that a perfectionist concern for individual excellence is satisfactory to ground ethics
the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong morality with respect to sexual relations
Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a medicine