“Suspicion, like an acid, corrodes the vessel in which it is put and eats away at the suspicious man himself: guarding oneself day and night from the entire human race, constantly devising ways of avoiding evil schemes and conspiracies, and sniffing out snares laid for you – this is what the Talmud calls ‘primary categories of damages.’ And these are the things that, as rabbis say, take a man out of the world.”
