All human activities are equivalent (for they all tend to sacrifice man in order that the self-cause may arise) and that all are on principle doomed to failure.[Toutes les activités humaines sont équivalentes – car elles tendent toutes à sacrifier l’homme pour faire surgir la cause de soi – et que toutes sont vouées par principe à l’échec.]
The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth’s political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal; he is a traitor.
Activity does not necessarily mean life.
