Chapter IX.
That vainglory is the more dangerous through being mixed
up with virtues.
Lastly
, other passions which
are entirely different from the virtues which are their opposites, and
which attack us openly and as it were in broad daylight, are more
easily overcome and guarded against: but this being interwoven with our
virtues and entangled in the battle, fighting as it were under cover of
the darkness of night, deceives the more dangerously those who are off
their guard and not on the lookout.