he was too intelligent not to realize that the heights of virtue, like those of love, owe their special value to their very rarity, to their quality of unique achievement and sublime excess.
finegia zen zeraz ez ohartzeko, bertutearen gailurrei maitasunarenei gertatzen zaien gauza bera gertatu ohi zaiela, alegia, haien meritua bakantasunean, maisu-lan bakar edo gehiegikeria eder izate horretan, ohi datzala.