“Only the vulgar will condescend to derive their pride from what they have done; they will, by this condescension, become the “slaves and prisoners” of their own faculties and will find out, should anything more be left in them than sheer stupid vanity, that to be one’s own slave and prisoner is no less bitter and perhaps even more shameful than to be the servant of somebody else.”只有俗人才屈尊地从他们做过的事情中得到骄傲，他们通过这样的自我贬低变成了他们自身能力的“奴仆和囚徒”，而且他们会发现，如果说除了纯粹愚蠢的虚荣之外，在他们身上还剩下什么东西的话，那就是做自己的奴仆和囚徒，跟做别人的奴仆一样痛苦，也许更屈辱。跟做别人的奴仆一样更屈辱。