Is There Something Cruel in My Spirit?

The spirit enjoys therein its craftiness and its variety of disguises. It is precisely by its protean arts that it is best protected and concealed. We should be at least inclined to deck ourselves out in such florid and fringed moral verbiage. A whole former work has just made a sick of this taste and its sprightly exuberance. They are beautiful, listening, jingling, festive words,. honesty, love of truth, love of wisdom, sacrifice for knowledge, heroism of the truthful. There is something in them that makes one's heart swell with pride.