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Over the years, the nature of human beings continued to be debated over whether we are good or evil, whether it is learned or hereditary. Does intention matter? Does interpretation? Nevertheless, one thing is clear—we know nothing, yet we do everything.

Prometheus Unbound Act I, Fury

Percy Bysshe SHELLEY, Prometheus Unbound

In each human heart terror survives

The ruin it has gorged: the loftiest fear

All that they would disdain to think were true.

Hypocrisy and custom make their minds

The fanes of many a worship, now outworn.

They dare not devise good for man’s estate,

And yet they know not that they do not dare.

The good want power, but to weep barren tears.

The powerful goodness want; worse need for them.

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;

And all best things are thus confused to ill.

Many are strong and rich, and would be just,

But live among their suffering fellow-men

As if none felt; they know not what they do.