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“Hand this man over to Satan immediately,

so that we may save him later.”

—The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians

“. . . and it turned out that not from cunning and not

from fear were they so hushed within themselves,

but from harkening.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, #1

“A life is manly, stoical, moral, or philosophical, we say, in proportion as it is less swayed by paltry personal considerations and more by objective ends that call for energy, even though that energy bring personal loss and pain. This is the good side of war, in so far as it calls for ‘volunteers.’ Even a sick man can willfully turn his attention away from his own future, whether in this world or the next. He can train himself to indifference to his present drawbacks and immerse himself in whatever objective interests still remain accessible. He can follow public news, and sympathize with other people’s affairs. He can cultivate cheerful manners, and be silent about his miseries. And yet he lacks something which the Christian par excellence, the mystic and ascetic saint, for example, has in abundant measure, and which makes of him a human being of an altogether different denomination.”

—William James, Varieties of Religious Experience

“Fear . . . invites the Devil to come to us.”

—Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy