Discretion Is Nothing Other Than

Secrecy Sets Barriers Between Men, But At The Same Time Offers The Seductive Temptation To Break Through The Barriers By Gossip Or Confession.

Gratitude, As It Were, Is The Moral Memory Of Mankind. In This Respect, It Differs From Faithfulness By Being More Practical And Impulsive: Although It May Remain, Of Course, Something Purely Internal, It May Yet Engender New Actions. It Is An Ideal Bridge Which The Soul Comes Across Again And Again, So To Speak, And Which, Upon Provocations Too Slight To Throw A New Bridge To The Other Person, It Uses To Come Closer To Him.

Man's Nature, Originally Good And Common To All, Should Develop Unhampered.

In The Latter Case Life Rests Upon A Thousand Presuppositions Which The Individual Can Never Trace Back To Their Origins, And Verify; But Which He Must Accept Upon Faith And Belief.

On The One Hand, Life Is Made Infinitely Easy For The Personality In That Stimulations, Interests, Uses Of Time And Consciousness Are Offered To It From All Sides. They Carry The Person As If In A Stream, And One Needs Hardly To Swim For Oneself.