You know,sometimes you have a wonderful feeling living in your heart.It seems to you that wherever you go,all men are comrades;all burn with one and the same fire;all are merry;all are good.Without words they all understand one another;and no on wants to hinder or insult the other.No one feels the need of it.All live in unison but each heart sings its own song.And the songs flow like brooks into one stream,swelling into a huge river of bright joys,rolling free and wide down its course.And when you think that this will be-that it cannot help being if we so wish it-then the wonder-struck heart melts with joy.You feel like weeping-you feel so happy.
And when you wake up and look around,you see it's all filthy and cold.All are tired and angry,human life is all churned up like mud on a busy highway and trodden under foot.
Yes,it hurts,but you must-you must distrust man;you must fear him and even hate him!Man is divided,he is cut in two by life.You'd like only to love him;but how is it possible?How can you forgive a man if he goes against you like a wild beast,does not recognize that there is a living soul in you ,and kicks your face- a human face!You must not forgive.It's not for yourself that you mustn't.I'd stand all the insults as far as I myself am concerned but I don't want to show indulgence for insults.I don't want to let them learn on my back how to beat others.
I must not forgive anything that is evil,even though it does not hurt!I'm not alone in the world.If I allow myself to be insulted today-may be I can afford to laugh at the insult,maybe it doesn't sting me at all but having tested his strength on me,the offender will proceed to flay someone else the next day!That's why one is compelled to discriminate between people,to keep a firm grip on one's heart and to classify mankind-these belong to me,those are strangers.
It's so plainly evident that it's downright ridiculous-simply because men don't stand on an equal footing.Then let's equalize them,put them all in one row!Let's divide equally all that's produced by the brain and all that's made by the hands.Let's not keep one another in the slavery of fear and envy,in the thralldom of greed and stupidity!
And when you wake up and look around,you see it's all filthy and cold.All are tired and angry,human life is all churned up like mud on a busy highway and trodden under foot.
Yes,it hurts,but you must-you must distrust man;you must fear him and even hate him!Man is divided,he is cut in two by life.You'd like only to love him;but how is it possible?How can you forgive a man if he goes against you like a wild beast,does not recognize that there is a living soul in you ,and kicks your face- a human face!You must not forgive.It's not for yourself that you mustn't.I'd stand all the insults as far as I myself am concerned but I don't want to show indulgence for insults.I don't want to let them learn on my back how to beat others.
I must not forgive anything that is evil,even though it does not hurt!I'm not alone in the world.If I allow myself to be insulted today-may be I can afford to laugh at the insult,maybe it doesn't sting me at all but having tested his strength on me,the offender will proceed to flay someone else the next day!That's why one is compelled to discriminate between people,to keep a firm grip on one's heart and to classify mankind-these belong to me,those are strangers.
It's so plainly evident that it's downright ridiculous-simply because men don't stand on an equal footing.Then let's equalize them,put them all in one row!Let's divide equally all that's produced by the brain and all that's made by the hands.Let's not keep one another in the slavery of fear and envy,in the thralldom of greed and stupidity!
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