A human being is like a cockroach
He is a most malleable and adaptive creature
He is capable of living as a free man or as a slave
He can adjust himself to luxury or deprivation
He can be saintly or profane. A bandit or a benefactor. Prodigious or miserly.
A man is peaceful and violent in equal measure.
Give him pain and he will find himself an opiate.
Give him pleasure and he will conjure up great debaucheries.
In the freezing cold, he will sew himself a cardigan. In the scorching heat, he will weave himself a canopy.
There is hardly anything a man cannot adapt himself to.
Save for sitting still.
Fabio