Status Updates From Het leven en de wonderlijke...

Switching to the audiobook now that my holiday’s over and I have no time to read it :’{

...how incongruous and irritational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases, viz. that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; nor ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them to be esteemed wise men.