Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. — Lichtenberg, The Waste Books This seems…optimistic. My experience is that once we know our weaknesses, they simply force us to buy them new clothes. The old disguise has been compromised. Vanity can no longer appear decked out as independence; cowardice has been seen strolling around in prudence’s hat; laziness has overplayed its hand as philosophical detachment. Very well, then. Back to the wardrobe. A man must go on deceiving himself somehow, and self-knowledge, far from ending the deception, merely raises the cost of production.
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