What is the greatest virtue?

I started thinking about this question last week after watching Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s interview with well known female rapper Cardi B.

In the interview, Biden recalled how his mother would often tell him, “Joey, the greatest virtue of all is courage. Because without courage, you couldn’t love with abandon. Without courage, none of the other virtues would exist.”

For whatever reason, this gave me pause.

Later, after much contemplation and after asking my wife how she would answer, it turned out the two of us had the same answer: the greatest virtue is honor.