Walden
what does this line mean "and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness."
From "Where I Lived And What I Lived For"
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Thoreau wasn't impressed with humanity. He thinks we are no better than ants scurrying to and fro lost in our own grandeur and chaos. He basically thought we are burdened under our own "wretchedness."
