We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
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Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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To know thyself must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.
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