December 28th, 2008

Motives

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“For Napoleon well knew that just as evil, weak, and fearful men saw their own base motives in other people’s actions, so also the virtuous tended to assume the noblest of motives in other people’s acts. Why else were so many awful lairs so successful at bilking others. If good people weren’t so trusting of bad ones the human race would have died out long ago.”