Verily, I like them not, the merciful ones, whose bliss is in their
pity: too destitute are they of bashfulness.
If I must be pitiful, I dislike to be called so; and if I be so, it is
preferably at a distance. 102
Since humanity came into being, man hath enjoyed himself too little:
that alone, my brethren, is our original sin! 103
Great obligations do not make grateful, but revengeful; and when a
small kindness is not forgotten, it becometh a gnawing worm. 103