I know your heart is in the right place, and that you don't place any exaggerated value on your life.

You are content to stand alone in the world, and have no mortgage of obligation on your life.
Why will you not fight ?" "Simply because I think as you do about duels.

I agree that one must often take part in the folly of the crowd, but I see a difference there.

I go and fight in battle because the State compels me.

I can struggle against these laws with my feeble forces, and I can exert myself to bring about their alteration; but so long as they exist I must submit to them, or else exile myself or commit suicide.