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I haven't worked it out, but do play with the idea that some important virtues, especially the virtues of thought - reasonableness, completeness, carefulness, focus - are refinements or transformations of intellectual and nonintellectual vices that result not from an external creative intent - whether virtuous or amoral - but from the intramural interactions of the vices themselves.  That certain virtues develop from vices (not necessarily opposites or pairs), upon the application of energy and the passage of time, catalyzed by surroundings.