When the fairies are displeased with anybody, they are said to send their elves to pinch them. The ecclesiastics, when they are displeased with any civil state, make also their elves, that is, superstitious, enchanted subjects, to pinch their princes, by preaching sedition; or one prince, enchanted with promises, to pinch another.
Whatsoever is the object of any man’s appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calls good; and the object of his hate and aversion, evil; and of his contempt, vile and inconsiderable. For these words of good, evil, and contemptible are ever used with relation to the person that uses them: there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves; but from the person of the man.
Are these your musings?
Or, are you giving credit to someone?
And your point is......?
However, I can't think of an appropriate strip to post, so let me segue over onto Shakespeare:
Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my doe?
(Fairies appear shortly thereafter to pinch him...)
...speaking of that, Puck, shouldn't you be over in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
Cheers!