7.
There you have its outward appearance, if it should ever come under a single view and show itself once in all its completeness.
But there are many aspects of it.
They unfold themselves according as life varies and as actions differ; but virtue itself does not become less or greater.
For the Supreme Good cannot diminish, nor may virtue retrograde; rather is it transformed, now into one quality and now into another, shaping itself according to the part which it is to play.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On various aspects of virtue
Location: Chapter 66, Section 7
Content:
7.
There you have its outward appearance, if it should ever come under a single view and show itself once in all its completeness.
But there are many aspects of it.
They unfold themselves according as life varies and as actions differ; but virtue itself does not become less or greater.
For the Supreme Good cannot diminish, nor may virtue retrograde; rather is it transformed, now into one quality and now into another, shaping itself according to the part which it is to play.