Ernest Renan, Marcus Aurelius, tr. William G. Hutchison (London; New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1904), 231:
The great drawback of actual life, that which renders it insupportable to the man of high character, lies in this—that if ideal principles be observed in it, good qualities become faults, so much so, indeed, that very often the perfect man has less success in life than he whose motives are egoism or common routine.
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