A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. ,etc.
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
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“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
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“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
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“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
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“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
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“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”