A society that promotes Dr. Jekylls through books of virtue may actually be fostering Mr. Hydes. . . .
"Force of character" is the persistence of the incorrigible anomalies, those traits you can't fix, can't hide, and can't accept. Resolutions, therapy, conversion, the heart's contrition in old age — nothing prevails against them, not even prayer. We are left realizing that character is indeed a force that cannot succumb to willpower or be reached by grace. The force of its flaws mocks all the virtuous books, whose efforts to enlighten are candles in the wind.
— James Hillman, The Force of Character