Hubris is perhaps the only sin which the universal harmony considers mortal and does not forgive. The culmination of an organism’s power is fated to engender its destruction. There is also this incomprehensible fact: precisely because the living organism has accomplished its duty, that is why it is annihilated. If it had not carried out this duty, it would have lived—vegetated—for a much longer time, without bothering others, without being bothered itself.
