The human soul degrades itself:

(1) Above all, when it does its best to become an abscess, a kind of detached growth on
the world. To be disgruntled at anything that happens is a kind of secession from
Nature, which comprises the nature of all things.

(2) When it turns its back on another person or sets out to do it harm, as the souls of
the angry do.

(3) When it is overpowered by pleasure or pain.

(4) When it puts on a mask and does or says something artifical or false.

(5) When it allows its actions and impulse to be without a purpose, to be random and
disconnected: even the smallest things out to be directed toward a goal. But the goal
of rational beings is to follow the rule and the law of the most ancient of
communities and states.

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