 Nevertheless, it is a striking fact that virtue is not always proportionately rewarded, nor vice punished. Price is more realistic on this point than Butler who said “Self-love then, though confined to the interest of the present world, does in general perfectly coincide with virtue” (1729: Sermon 3, para. 8 [2017: 36]). Not only do the virtuous often suffer and the vicious flourish, but the virtuous are open to peculiar psychological sufferings of which the vicious know nothing. They may suffer from an over scrupulous conscience, from guilt, and consciousness of their own unworthiness.