On differing from the vulgar

"Abandon learning, and have no more vexation. Not much difference, after all, is there between Aye and Yes. And how much difference do they make between good and evil? One must, of course, dread what others dread (i.e. evil). But, alas! they will never cease from their madness. All the people are full of ambitious desires, lusting as if for the stalled ox, or for sexual enjoyment. I am alone in my timidity, and show no sign (of ambition). I am as a child not yet matured. I am forlorn, as if I had no home to go to. All (other) men have (enough and) to spare; but I am, as it were, left behind. In mind how like I am to the fool! I am all in a maze. The common people are brightly intelligent: I alone seem to be in the dark. The common people are discriminative: I alone am without discrimination. I am tossed as the ocean; I roll as if never to stop. All (other) men have something that they can do: I alone am good for nothing, and despicable. I alone differ from other people, but I glory in my nursing Mother (Tau)."