Passage from Dostoevsky; worth contemplating:
“…There constantly appear in life people of such good behavior and good sense, such sages and lovers of mankind, as precisely make it their goal to spend their entire lives in the best-behaved and most sensible way possible, to become, so to speak, a light for their neighbors… it is known that sooner or later, towards the end of their lives, many of these lovers have betrayed themselves… Now I ask you: what can be expected of a man endowed with such strange qualities? Shower him with all earthly blessings, drown him in happiness completely… and it is here, just here, that he, this man, out of sheer ingratitude, out of sheer lampoonery, will do something nasty… solely to mix into all this positive good sense his own pernicious, fantastical element…”