Masaniello was a fool, but what had to be performed was done in the best way possible.

And that Winkelried was certainly a fool also, and yet had he not thrust the imperial spears into himself the Swiss would have been thrashed.

Have there not been many fools like that?
Yet they are the heroes.

And the clever people are the cowards.

Where they ought to deal the obstacle a blow with all their might they stop to reflect: 'What will come of it?
Perhaps we may perish in vain ?' And they stand there like posts--until they breathe their last.