"<p>Avoid them as much as possible. Because they are worse than traitors. For there is indeed no excuse for the traitor: a rope for him. But he who, with a cautious self-preservation, loiters about you and the common cause, and has neither courage nor morality to remain alone, nor to bear the consequences of action, treachery, or revenge: these are indeed the most vile. The traitor at least acts: he betrays. His action has consequences, which are borne by both the traitor and the victim. Betrayal is a vile act, but it is an act. But the cautious, who with plain countenance are there for the common cause, and are not brave enough to retire into utter solitude, the doer, the heroic, but not brave enough either to defend or to betray the cause under whose slogan they prowl among men, these, whom every man feels to be on his own side, and in reality are never men or heroes enough to show themselves with all consequences: they who are cowards to treachery, weak to revenge, and powerless to solitude, are the most dangerous. You may despise the traitor. But do not despise such a man, nor pursue him; look over him as through the air.</p>"