A moderately bad man knows he is not very good — a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good — a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good — a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good — a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good — a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
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A moderately bad man knows he is not very good

— a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
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That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village — the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth — to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is “remains.” To be a complete man means to have the passions obedient to the will and the will offered to God: to have been a man – to be an ex-man or “damned ghost” – would presumably mean to consist of a will utterly centered in its self and passions utterly uncontrolled by the will.
He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods — the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.
Joy is not a substitute for sex — sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.
The anthology was not a best-seller — art as a weapon seldom is.
I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and u — the little daily dose.
A man can’t be always defending the truth — there must be a time to feed on it.
I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night — but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.
We all have different languages — but we all really mean the same thing.
and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing — a very serious thing indeed.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very — otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.