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• Make a virtue of necessity Verb
  1. To make the best of a difficult situation; to recast or portray an action or situation in which one has no alternatives as an action or situation which was deliberately chosen on its merits.
     • Circa 1595, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 4, sc.1:.
     • Indeed, because you are a banish'd man,.
     • Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you:.
     • Are you content to be our general?.
     • To make a virtue of necessity.
     • And live, as we do, in this wilderness?.
     • Nietzsche, as I gather, regarded the slave-morality as having been invented and imposed on the world by slaves making a virtue of necessity and a religion of their servitude.