A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.