All of this talk of swine

 Do you know, all of this talk about swine puts me in mind of the saying of John Stewart Mills who was famed to have said "A man satisfied is better than a pig dissatisfied."

But even if that is the case, I feel much more compassion for the man of intelligence because true intelligence is the ability to acknowledge suffering. And the truly intelligent person knows the true depth of suffering, not only in others, but in himself. 

He is rather like the surgeon and the one being operated on. That is very different to the person of low intellect who sees himself to be a rubber hunk of meat being cut open, fixed and sewn back together. Life being, in essence a form of ongoing operation.