1When we renounce learning we have no troubles.      The (ready) 'yes,' and (flattering) 'yea;'--      Small is the difference they display.      But mark their issues, good and ill;--      What space the gulf between shall fill?

2The multitude of men look satisfied and pleased; as if enjoying a     full banquet, as if mounted on a tower in spring. I alone seem     listless and still, my desires having as yet given no indication of     their presence. I am like an infant which has not yet smiled. I look     dejected and forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. The multitude of     men all have enough and to spare. I alone seem to have lost     everything. My mind is that of a stupid man; I am in a state of     chaos.