23/28 Insanity in individuals is something rare--but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets successfully through many a bad night. Not only our reason, but also our conscience, truckles to our strongest impulse--the tyrant in us. One MUST repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill? One no longer loves one's knowledge sufficiently after one has communicated it. |