Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
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.]
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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.
