"He is a man who avoids society only to
free himself from the trouble of being useful to it. He is a man who considers
his neighbors only on the side of their defects, not knowing the art of combining
their virtues with their vices, and of rendering the imperfections of other
people tolerable, by reflecting on his own. He is a man more employed in
finding out and inflicting punishments on the guilty, than in devising means to
reform them. He is a man who talks of nothing but banishing and executing; and
who, because he thinks his talents are not sufficiently valued and employed by
his fellow-citizens, or rather because they know his foibles, and do not choose
to be subject to his caprice, leads him to talks of quitting cities, towns and
societies, and living in dens or deserts." Saurin.
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