Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control,constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave.The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed
I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath,but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, everypart of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Lifeconsists...