20.
Applying, therefore, this same figure to virtue, we shall say: Virtue also is straight, and admits of no bending.
What can be made more tense than a thing which is already rigid?
Such is virtue, which passes judgment on everything, but nothing passes judgment on virtue.
And if this rule, virtue, cannot itself be made more straight, neither can the things created by virtue be in one case straighter and in another less straight.
For they must necessarily correspond to virtue; hence they are equal.
Book: Moral Letters Vol II
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the supreme good
Location: Chapter 71, Section 20
Content:
20.
Applying, therefore, this same figure to virtue, we shall say: Virtue also is straight, and admits of no bending.
What can be made more tense than a thing which is already rigid?
Such is virtue, which passes judgment on everything, but nothing passes judgment on virtue.
And if this rule, virtue, cannot itself be made more straight, neither can the things created by virtue be in one case straighter and in another less straight.
For they must necessarily correspond to virtue; hence they are equal.