Eight simple virtures.................

Helen Keller, the deaf and blind activist, was asked by a journalist what she thought would be worse than being born blind. She replied without missing a beat, ‘to have sight and no vision.’

-from this Farnam Street post listing the eight simple virtues in  David Ogilvy's The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness:  Being Very Good Is No Good, You Have To Be Very, Very. Very, Very, Very Good