something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. — THE NOBLE SOUL HAS REVERENCE FOR ITSELF. —

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There are men who are unavoidably intellectual, let them turn and twist themselves as they will, and hold their hands before their treacherous eyes — as though the hand were not a betrayer; it always comes out at last that they have something which they hide — namely, intellect. One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really is — which in everyday life is often as desirable as an umbrella, — is called ENTHUSIASM, including what belongs to it, for instance, virtue. For as Galiani said, who was obliged to know it: VERTU EST ENTHOUSIASME.