Ahlaki ve metafizik meseleler üzerine kafa yormalarının ve daha derin görüşlere sahip olmalarının bir neticesi olarak Budacılar büyük erdemlerden değil, büyük günahlardan yola çıkarlar; çünkü erdemler ancak kötülük yahut günahların karşıtları ya da onların etkisiz hale getirilmeleriyle görünür hale gelirler.
By me unquestion'd, thus his speech resum'd:
"Behold that lofty shade, who this way tends,
And seems too woe-begone to drop a tear.
How yet the regal aspect he retains!
Jason is he, whose skill and prowess won
The ram from Colchos. To the Lemnian isle
His passage thither led him, when those bold
And pitiless women had slain all their males.
There he with tokens and fair witching words
Hypsipyle beguil'd, a virgin young,
Who first had all the rest herself beguil'd.
Impregnated he left her there forlorn.
Such is the guilt condemns him to this pain.
Here too Medea's inj'ries are avenged.