However much he reflects and struggles to do so, he is unable. But the longer he waits and leaves the tree to grow, the larger and stronger it becomes while he only becomes weaker. Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. The smallest speck is seen on snow. Virtue has need of limits.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
5557 Virtue is not hereditary. The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue. Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rock of poverty. Virtue is insufficient temptation. Heavy and hard to push.