They respect neither intelligence nor education, but they respect power and they envy wealth.
On the up side, they are rarely duped by talk of sacrifice for the greater good.
All the same, it is they who get sacrificed as surely as the veriest serf or slave, by and for others.
Being thus exploited willy-nilly all their days, they are astonished by the pride which others take in voluntary sacrifice.
On the other hand, people throw their lives away for nothing all the time.
Empedocles on Etna.
You know, for a philosopher, that is, a man who spends all his life pondering the mysteries of the human condition, old 'Empers' wasn't up to much, was he? I mean, 'confused' is hardly the word!
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