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“It is naïve to suppose that evil consists exclusively in overt criminal acts and that it is not to be found in respectable families. Such a view is a relic of medieval naïveté. The world in which we live is not based on moral principles. And if we act as though it were, we blind ourselves to reality.”
“If you imagine that a person who does not know himself, and has never faced his shadow, can simply decide to be good and remain good, you are deluding yourself. This is the root of human hypocrisy and self-deception.”