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is counter to our vanity.
- With regard to what ‘truthfulness’ is, perhaps nobody
has ever been sufficiently truthful.
- One does not believe in the follies of clever men: what
a forfeiture of the rights of man!
- The consequences of our actions seize us by the fore-
lock, very indifferent to the fact that we have meanwhile
‘reformed.’
- There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good
faith in a cause.
- It is inhuman to bless when one is being cursed.
- The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it
may not be returned.
- ‘I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but
because I can no longer believe in you.’
- There is a haughtiness of kindness which has the ap-
pearance of wickedness.
- ‘I dislike him.’—Why?—‘I am not a match for him.’—
Did any one ever answer so?
