He is a virtuous man.

他是个有道德的人。

youdao

A virtuous man must have said something of note; but someone who has said something of note is not necessarily a man of virtue.

有德者必有言，有言者不必有德（道德高尚的人一定会有有益的名言传世，担忧名言传世的人不一定都是道德高尚的人。）

youdao

Born in an age and country abounding in individual greatness, this man has been handed down to us by those who best knew both him and the age, as the most virtuous man in it;

这个人生在一个富有个人伟大性的时代和国度里，凡最知道他和那个时代的人都把他当作那个时代中最有道德的人传留给我们；

youdao

Although Gogol writes that "we have not taken a virtuous man as our hero, " he has made Chichikov, though vile and petty in so many ways, oddly sympathetic.

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Like an honest man or a virtuous woman, it gives us a standard against which to measure our shortcomings.

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