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But it is well known that a man carried away by his passion, especially a man getting on in years, is quite blind, and prone to find grounds for hope, where there are none ; what's more, he loses his judgment and acts foolish child, however great an intellect he may have

Perhaps there is some man who has been sentenced to death, been exposed to this torture and has then been told 'you can go, you are pardoned'. Perhaps such a man could tell us. It was of this torture and of this agony that Christ spoke, too, 'No! You can't treat a man like that'

The chief and the worst pain may not be in the bodily suffering but in one's knowing for certain that in an hour, and then in ten minutes, and then in half an minute, and then now, at the very moment, the soul will leave the body and that one will cease to be a man and that that's bound to happen ; the worse part of it is that it's certain