They can also make other people feel envious of you. Rosalind Hursthouse says that it is difficult to describe exactly the nature of a particular virtue, because it involves many different character traits that occur in different degrees; it's not all black and white (i.e., people can be more or less honest, it's not all or nothing). According to Rosalind, the deontologist has the list of moral rules that offer good moral guidance, the ideal versions of the theory. The virtue ethicist only has to "do what the virtuous agent would do," which offers no guidance unless you are, and know you are, a virtuous agent, in which case you don't need the advice anyway. The virtues give us some direction. Becoming a moral person is not learned, it is learned by growing up (Hursthouse, Normative Virtue Ethics). I think your answer is successful. Nothing is ever truly black and white, there are always shades of grey. Having a general list of morally correct rules and virtues to guide you as you grow, learn, and develop your own ideas or specifications about what is morally worthy seems more realistic than Kant's black and white