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Having gained the moon, how much then would he dread life in a world without it. The oppression of such fear! Even if this moon aroused nothing but hatred in him.
But dispensing goodwill to mankind is a hazardous business at best, and one that demands a considerable degree of maturity and wisdom.
History is a record of destruction. One must always make room for the
next ephemeral crystal. For history, to build and to destroy are one and the same thing.
In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it.
Once passion was set in motion according to its own laws, then it was irresistible. This was a theory that would never be
accepted by modern law, which took it as self-evident that conscience and reason ruled man.
One could certainly think of a man not in terms of a body but as a single vital current. And this would allow one to grasp the concept of
existence as dynamic and on-going, rather than as static.
A man may be hard to persuade by rational argument while he is easily swayed by a display of
passion, even if it is feigned.
