Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
Pursued by our origins... we all are.
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.