“Fashions change, being themselves begotten of the desire for change.”
“Whereas I had hated them for their cruelty, their consent made them now so dear to me that the thought of causing them pain stabbed me also with a pain through which the purpose of life appears to me as the pursuit not of truth but of loving-kindness, and life itself seemed good or evil only as my parents were happy or sad.”
“All that I grasped was that to repeat what everybody else was thinking was, in politics, the mark not of an inferior but of a superior mind.”
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