Full Idea
It may well be that being particularly well endowed with respect to some virtues inevitably involves being not very well endowed in others.
Gist of Idea
Being unusually virtuous in some areas may entail being less virtuous in others
Source
Rosalind Hursthouse (On Virtue Ethics [1999], Ch.9)
Book Reference
Hursthouse,Rosalind: 'On Virtue Ethics' [OUP 2001], p.213
A Reaction
Maybe, but this sound a bit like an excuse. Newton wasn't very nice, but Einstein was. I can't believe in a finite reservoir of virtue.