Max Nordau. (№ 412493)

They chatter incessantly, and pour out brilliant witticisms and puns, fight alone against ten, love like Hercules on a Thespian night, in a word, their whole life passes in a continuous struggle, in impulses of voluptuousness, in intoxication and splendor. This is a kind of megalomania with gladiatorial, Don Juan and Montecrist performances, an insane waste of physical strength, fun, gold.