DIONYSUS

He enjoys the taste of what is wholesome for him;
his pleasure in anything ceases when the bounds of the wholesome are crossed;
he divines the remedies for partial injuries;

he has illnesses as great stimulants of his life;
he knows how to exploit ill chances;
he grows stronger through the accidents that threaten to destroy him;
he instinctively gather from all that he sees, hears, experiences, what advances his main concern --- he follows a principle of selection --- he allows much to fall through;
he reacts with the slowness bred by a long caution
and a deliberate pride --- he tests a stimulus for
its origin and its intentions, he does not submit;
he is always in his own company, whether he deals with books, men, or landscapes;
he honors by choosing, by admitting, by
trusting.

-- 1003 (Jan-Fall 1888), F.N.