Wax and Virtue

He had a way of presenting himself on-line, as one...glowing, worthy.

As one who has seen much, his grandmother waited for the right moment.

When the two were paging through a photo album, she, lauding the men of yesterday, said without lifting her eyes, "Just as a treasure exposed is quickly spent, so also any virtue that becomes famous or well-publicized vanishes. Just as wax quickly melts by fire, so is the soul emptied by praise, and loses firmness of virtue."