Merton Monday 13
Some people think it is enough to have one virtue, like kindness or broadmindedness or charity, and let everything else go. But if you are unselfish in one way and selfish in twenty-five other ways your virtue will not do you much good. In fact, it will probably turn out to be nothing more than a twenty-sixth variety of the same selfishness, disguised as virtue.
Therefore do not think that because you seem to have some good quality, all the evil in you can be excused or forgotten on that account alone. —New Seeds, Chapter 24
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