“Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?”
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Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
