Virtue catalogs

Different lives. Familiar choices. Find a collection that helps you see your own world more clearly.

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Everyday life & relationships

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Parent’s Virtues

Help a growing person become themselves through warmth, thoughtful guidance, and your own example.

19 individual virtue pages

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Partner’s Virtues

Build affection and trust through honest choices that leave room for two whole people.

16 individual virtue pages

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Friend’s Virtues

Offer companionship that can celebrate, tell the truth, and make room for change.

17 individual virtue pages

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Good Neighbor’s Virtues

Share everyday space with goodwill, fair limits and room for difference.

16 individual virtue pages

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Self-Reliance Virtues

Exercise your own judgment while acknowledging the help and knowledge you depend on.

14 individual virtue pages

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Coming of Age Virtues

Form your own judgment and grow into choices you can stand behind.

13 individual virtue pages

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Lady’s Virtues

Cultivate dignity, graciousness, and an independent conscience under social pressure.

14 individual virtue pages

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Gentleman’s Virtues

Cultivate honorable conduct and considerate strength without entitlement.

13 individual virtue pages

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Metropolitan Virtues

Make the most of shared city life, with room for other people’s lives.

13 individual virtue pages

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Elder’s Virtues

Meet later life with dignity, curiosity, and freedom to give without disappearing.

13 individual virtue pages

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A deliberate way of life

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Fresh Start Virtues

Begin again with honesty and dignity; a difficult chapter does not define your worth.

13 individual virtue pages

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Minimalist’s Virtues

Use possessions deliberately without turning simplicity into a competition or a rule for others.

13 individual virtue pages

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Monk Mode Virtues

Make room for sustained attention without making withdrawal or productivity your measure of worth.

12 individual virtue pages

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Slow Life Virtues

Find depth in the time available without judging those whose lives cannot slow down.

13 individual virtue pages

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Gardener’s Virtues

Practice patient care with living things that will never be entirely under your control.

12 individual virtue pages

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Care, service & public life

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Healer’s Virtues

Meet suffering with compassion, sound judgment, and respect for the person receiving care.

15 individual virtue pages

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Teacher’s Virtues

Help minds grow beyond your own answers while preserving every learner's dignity.

19 individual virtue pages

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Leader’s Virtues

Exercise influence without making people instruments of your ambition.

14 individual virtue pages

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Guardian’s Virtues

Protect people with judgment, humanity, and restraint rather than a hunger for authority.

15 individual virtue pages

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Diplomat’s Virtues

Keep truthful dialogue possible across conflict while protecting dignity and principled limits.

13 individual virtue pages

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Common Good Virtues

Contribute to collective life without surrendering conscience to the group.

14 individual virtue pages

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Stewardship Virtues

Care for people, institutions, and futures through the principled exercise of public power.

14 individual virtue pages

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Whistleblower Virtues

Consider raising a substantiated concern with truthful judgment, proportionate disclosure, and care for those affected; this catalog does not require disclosure.

13 individual virtue pages

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Play, character & imagination

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Dog’s Virtues

Borrow the spirit of a warm welcome and a shared game while keeping human judgment and boundaries.

11 individual virtue pages

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Cat’s Virtues

Borrow curious attention and unhurried self-possession without mistaking indifference for independence.

12 individual virtue pages

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Gamer’s Virtues

Enjoy challenge and companionship while keeping fairness, dignity, and life beyond the game in view.

14 individual virtue pages

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Superhero Virtues

Use strength to protect without becoming domineering or cruel.

14 individual virtue pages

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Sports Virtues

Play wholeheartedly. Give the contest and its people their due.

13 individual virtue pages

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Sage’s Virtues

Seek understanding deep enough to make you more truthful, generous, and aware of your limits.

14 individual virtue pages

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Secret Agent Virtues

Practice ethical judgment when information is confidential, motives are uncertain, and loyalty is used to test your conscience.

14 individual virtue pages

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Inquiry, work & creativity

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Creative Life Virtues

Give worthwhile ideas form, develop them with care, and share in the life of other makers.

14 individual virtue pages

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Enterprise Virtues

Create and exchange value without letting gain govern your conscience.

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Scientist’s Virtues

Follow good questions toward an account the evidence can support.

14 individual virtue pages

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Nerd Virtues

Follow an absorbing interest into real understanding, and make that understanding worth sharing.

13 individual virtue pages

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Journalist’s Virtues

Seek an accurate public account without treating people as material for a better story.

14 individual virtue pages

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Detective Virtues

Pursue the truth without forcing people or evidence into a preferred story.

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Ethical Hacker Virtues

Investigate authorized systems with fidelity to evidence, respect for limits, and care for the people affected.

13 individual virtue pages

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Counter-Spy Virtues

Examine possible deception without letting suspicion, loyalty, or a satisfying theory outrun the evidence.

13 individual virtue pages

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A connected world

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AI Age Virtues

Preserve judgment and humanity when automated systems offer to choose, speak, and decide for you.

13 individual virtue pages

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Networked World Virtues

Act with integrity when words and actions travel beyond their original context.

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Celebrity Virtues

Cultivate character in the spotlight: remain truthful and humane when fame rewards performance and exaggeration.

13 individual virtue pages

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Open World Virtues

Share knowledge and welcome contribution while preserving judgment and human boundaries.

14 individual virtue pages

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New horizons & difficult circumstances

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Travelers’ Virtues

Explore unfamiliar places with curiosity and sound judgment, leaving room for the lives already being lived there.

15 individual virtue pages

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Survival Virtues

Keep humane judgment during disruption without turning danger or self-neglect into a test of character.

14 individual virtue pages

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Frontier Virtues

Enter the unknown without confusing boldness with entitlement.

13 individual virtue pages

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Alien Encounter Virtues

Meet radically unfamiliar minds without assuming your own experience exhausts what matters.

13 individual virtue pages

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Interplanetary Virtues

Preserve humanity across distance, scarcity, confinement, and long delays.

14 individual virtue pages

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Additional collections and traditions

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