I can do nothing, they are already strangers to themselves.
"But the Idols of the Market-place are the most troublesome of all; idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words; but it is also true that words react on the understanding; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive."
from 'Novum Organum'
"Certainly, men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business they have no time to tend their health, either of body or of mind."
from 'Of Great Place'
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)