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The Universalists believe that God is too good to damn [humanity], while the Unitarians believe that [humanity] is too good to be damned by God.
Thomas Starr King
Es geht die alte Sage, dass König Midas lange Zeit nach dem weisen Silen, dem Begleiter des Dionysus, im Walde gejagt habe, ohne ihn zu fangen. Als er ihm endlich in die Hände gefallen ist, fragt der König, was für den Menschen das Allerbeste und Allervorzüglichste sei. Starr und unbeweglich schweigt der Dämon; bis er, durch den König gezwungen, endlich unter gellem Lachen in diese Worte ausbricht: `Elendes Eintagsgeschlecht, des Zufalls Kinder und der Mühsal, was zwingst du mich dir zu sagen, was nicht zu hören für dich das Erspriesslichste ist? Das Allerbeste ist für dich gänzlich unerreichbar: nicht geboren zu sein, nicht zu sein, nichts zu sein. Das Zweitbeste aber ist für dich - bald zu sterben. According to the old story, King Midas had long hunted wise Silenus, Dionysus' companion, without catching him. When Silenus had finally fallen into his clutches, the king asked him what was the best and most desirable thing of all for mankind. The daemon stood still, stiff and motionless, until at last, forced by the king, he gave a shrill laugh and spoke these words: 'Miserable, ephemeral race, children of hazard and hardship, why do you force me to say what it would be much more fruitful for you not to hear? The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you — is to die soon.
Friedrich Nietzsche (An Attempt at Self-Criticism/Foreword to Richard Wagner/The Birth of Tragedy)
Wetzel made all his clothes free....“He has an idea, which I naturally encourage, that it is a privilege to dress the man who according to newspapers ‘sets the fashion for American manhood,’” Harry explained. “He never even suggests anything so vulgar as payment for his suits....Kaskel and Kaskel supplied him with the latest designs in shirt and pyjamas on the same understanding, only asking him as a favour to let it be discreetly known where his underwear came from. Black, Starr and Frost lent him jewels, an unending supply, for they were always renewing them. How had I supposed he had been able to
Elizabeth Drexel Lehr (“King Lehr” and the Gilded Age)