The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.
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Zum Autor"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
"I who know many present things by my art,' replied the Hermit with a smile, 'have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
"...If you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'."
"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
"Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy."