Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.
Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.
Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.
Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.