V. be selfish &c. adj.; please oneself, indulge oneself, coddle
oneself; consult one’s own wishes, consult one’s own pleasure; look after one’s own interest; feather one’s nest; take care of number one, have an eye to the main chance, know on which side one’s bread is buttered; give an inch and take an ell. 
     Adj. selfish; self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-
centered; wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self[obs3], centered in self; egotistic, egotistical; egoistical[obs3].
     illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded; mercenary, venal; covetous
&c. 819.
     unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded; mundane; worldly, worldly-
minded; worldly-wise; timeserving[obs3].
     interested; alieni appetens sui profusus[Lat]. 
     Adv. ungenerously &c. adj.; to gain some private ends, from interested
motives. 
     Phr. apres nous le deluge[Fr].

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     #944.  Virtue. —­ N. virtue; virtuousness &c. adj.; morality; moral
rectitude; integrity &c. (probity) 939; nobleness &c. 873.
     morals; ethics &c. (duty) 926; cardinal virtues.
     merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit; self-control &c.
(resolution) 604; self-denial &c. (temperance) 953.
     well-doing; good actions, good behavior; discharge of duty,
fulfillment of duty, performance of duty; well-spent life; innocence &c. 946. 
     V. be virtuous &c. adj.; practice virtue &c.n.; do one’s duty, fulfill
one’s duty, perform one’s duty, discharge one’s duty; redeem one’s pledge, keep one’s promise &c. 926; act well, act one’s part; fight the good fight; acquit oneself well; command one’s passions, master one’s passions; keep in the right path.
     set an example, set a good example; be on one’s good behavior, be on
one’s best behavior. 
     Adj. virtuous, good; innocent &c. 946; meritorious, deserving, worthy,
desertful[obs3], correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right-minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled[obs3].
     exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born,
angelic, seraphic, godlike. 
     Adv. virtuously &c, adj.; e merito[Lat]. 
     Phr. esse quam videri bonus malebat [Lat][Sallust]; Schonheit vergeht
Tugend besteht[Ger]; “virtue the greatest of all monarchies” [Swift]; virtus laudatur et alget [Lat][obs3][Juvenal]; virtus vincit invidiam[Lat].

     #945.  Vice. —­ N. vice; evil-doing, evil courses; wrongdoing;
wickedness, viciousness &c. adj.; iniquity, peccability[obs3], demerit; sin, Adam|!; old Adam[obs3], offending Adam[obs3].
     immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of
morals; enphagy[obs3], dophagy[obs3], exophagy[obs3]; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity[obs3], depravity,