fusilier and sailor

Luck, chance and fortune encourage virtue when they are capricious but do not shift randomly by the moment. Fortunately they are more often winds than static, and they are indirectly the measure of virtue: the virtues are those ways by which we sail with or against the winds of fortune. The vices, on balance, are the virtues of chaos.  Where there is regnant evil, chaos has been. Where the underlying entropic forces have given way to a more patterned fortune, virtue climbs slowly to the throne.