Virtues are funny things.
They are the fruit of faith and, whenever paraded, become parodies of themselves and the worst kind of vanity imaginable. When they are not the fruit of faith they become its greatest obstacle. Virtunes are most vital when invisible and most sharply imaged when they are not the focus of our attentions. Take, for example, wisdom. The tendency among many of us, though, is to confuse wisdom with omniscience and to think ourselves wise in proportion to how much stuff we know.