A company of porcupines on a cold winter day, gathered close, to protect themselves, by mutual warmth, and remain frozen. Soon, however, felt each other's bones, the pain forced them to back away from each other. Then when the need to warm up took them back together again, repeated that other ailments, so that was tossed back and forth between two evils, until they had found a moderate distance from each other, which was the best location for them.
(A. Schopenhauer, and Parerga Paralipomena , II, 2, ch. 30, 396)
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