Values are defined as "the ideals, customs, institutions, etc., of a society toward which the people of the group have an affective regard. These values may be positive, as cleanliness, freedom, or education, or negative, as cruelty, crime, or blasphemy." (1) Virtue is defined as 1. Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness. 2. An example or kind of moral excellence: the virtue of patience. (2) The conceptual opposite of virtue is vice.