of honesty and integrity: in hereditary aristocracies. Eventually the permanent practice of dissembling ripens into nature : simulation in the end neutralises itself and organs and instincts are the unexpected fruits in the garden of hypocrisy.
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Who then is ever alone!—The faint-hearted does not know what it is to be alone, for some enemy or other is always lying in wait for him. Oh, for him who could tell us the history of that noble feeling which is called loneliness!
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Night and music.—According to the mode of life of the timid the ear, the organ of fear, has only in the might and twilight of dark woods and caves been able to attain its present phase of development; that is, the longest human period which has ever existed: in broaddaylight the car is less required. This explains the character of music as that of an art of night and twilight.
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Stoic.—Even the Stoic has his hours of gladness; when he feels oppressed by the formalities which he has himself prescribed to his conduct, and thus enjoys himself as ruler.
