Suppose it were true—Adam, the most rigidly honest
man it was possible to find, living all his life on stolen money. Lee laughed to himself—now this
second will, and Aron, whose purity was a little on the self-indulgent side, living all his life on the
profits from a whorehouse. Was this some kind of joke or did things balance so that if one went too far
in one direction an automatic slide moved on the scale and the balance was re-established?

Autor: John Steinbeck