In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Wicked me obey from fear; good men,from love.

But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.