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we learn to DESPISE when we love, and precisely when we love best; all of it, however, unconsciously, without noise, without ostentation, with the shame and secrecy of goodness, which forbids the utterance of the pompous word and the formula of virtue.
The practice of judging and condemning morally, is the favourite revenge of the intellectually shallow
an art which, from the far distance, would see the colours of a sinking and almost incomprehensible MORAL world fleeing towards it, and would be hospitable enough and profound enough to receive such belated fugitives.
Gods are fond of ridicule: it seems that they cannot refrain from laughter even in holy matters.
