Let’s pause on these heights. Now you understand what I meant when I spoke of aiming higher. I was talking, it so happens, of those supreme summits, the only places I can really live. Yes, I have never felt comfortable except in lofty places. Even in the details of daily life, I needed to feel above.
Hmm maybe his motivation for seeking virtue as its own reward through acting selfless is not quite the intrinsic satisfaction he derives from virtue but rather the justification it gives him to declare himself a superior man
