“Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.”
“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. ”
“Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”
“Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive.”
“It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning.”
“To endure uncertainity is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.”