The Individual Has Always To Struggle To

Ah, How Little You Know Of Human Happiness - You Comfortable And Benevolent People! For Happiness And Unhappiness Are Brother And Sister - Or Even Twins Who Grow Up Together - Or In Your Case - Remain Small Together!

There Is Always Some Madness In Love. But There Is Also Always Some Reason In Madness.

Who Can Attain To Anything Great If He Does Not Feel In Himself The Force And Will To Inflict Great Pain? The Ability To Suffer Is A Small Matter: In That Line, Weak Women And Even Slaves Often Attain Masterliness. But Not To Perish From Internal Distress And Doubt When One Inflicts Great Suffering And Hears The Cry Of It That Is Great, That Belongs To Greatness.

There Still Shines The Most Important Nuance By Virtue Of Which The Noble Felt Themselves To Be Men Of A Higher Rank. They Designate Themselves Simply By Their Superiority In Power (as "the Powerful," "the Masters," "the Commanders") Or By The Most Clearly Visible Signs Of This Superiority, For Example, As "the Rich," "the Possessors" (this Is The Meaning Of 'arya,' And Of Corresponding Words In Iranian And Slavic).

Over Immense Periods Of Time The Intellect Produced Nothing But Errors. A Few Of These Proved To Be Useful And Helped To Preserve The Species: Those Who Hit Upon Or Inherited These Had Better Luck In Their Struggle For Themselves And Their Progeny. Such Erroneous Articles Of Faith... Include The Following: That There Are Things, Substances, Bodies; That A Thing Is What It Appears To Be; That Our Will Is Free; That What Is Good For Me Is Also Good In Itself.