Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.
Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.
The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.
It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.