An idea from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

You can be smart, brave, rich and healthy, and still use all of it to do harm. A calm, clever crook is more dangerous than a nervous one. So none of those gifts is good in every case. Something else decides whether they help or hurt.

From Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant

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