If the study you devote yourself to tends to weaken your affections and destroy your taste for those simple pleasures not permitting any fraud, then
this study is certainly unauthorized, it does not match the human spirit. If everyone always complied to this rule, if no one ever allowed any of his pursuits to interfere and disrupt the tranquility of his internal feelings, then Greece would not have become enslaved, Caesar would have showed mercy on his homeland, America would have been discovered more gradually and the empires of Mexico and Peru would not have been destroyed.Frankenstein 1818 Mary Shelley
