Volume Ii Part 7 (1/2)

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A DANGER TO UNIVERSAL MORALITY.-People who are at the same time n.o.ble and honest come to deify every devilry that brings out their honesty, and to suspend for a time the balance of their moral judgment.

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THE SADDEST ERROR.-It is an unpardonable offence when one discovers that where one was convinced of being loved, one is only regarded as a household utensil and decoration, whereby the master of the house can find an outlet for his vanity before his guests.

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LOVE AND DUALITY.-What else is love but understanding and rejoicing that another lives, works, and feels in a different and opposite way to ourselves? That love may be able to bridge over the contrasts by joys, we must not remove or deny those contrasts. Even self-love presupposes an irreconcileable duality (or plurality) in one person.

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SIGNS FROM DREAMS.-What one sometimes does not know and feel accurately in waking hours-whether one has a good or a bad conscience as regards some person-is revealed completely and unambiguously by dreams.

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DEBAUCHERY.-Not joy but joylessness is the mother of debauchery.

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REWARD AND PUNISHMENT.-No one accuses without an underlying notion of punishment and revenge, even when he accuses his fate or himself. All complaint is accusation, all self-congratulation is praise. Whether we do one or the other, we always make some one responsible.

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