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A Regime Which Combines Perpetual Surveillance With Total Indulgence Is Hardly Conducive To Healthy Development.

All These Problems [deciding Cases] Are Easier For People Who Believe In God. Those Of Us Who Don't Or Can't Have To Do The Best We Can. That's What The Law Is, The Best We Can Do. Human Justice Is Imperfect, But It's The Only Justice We Have.

Without The Hope Of Posterity, For Our Race If Not For Ourselves, Without The Assurance That We Being Dead Yet Live, All Pleasures Of The Mind And Senses Sometimes Seem To Me No More Than Pathetic And Crumbling Defences Shored Up Against Our Ruin.

Charm Is Often Despised But I Can Never See Why. No One Has It Who Isn't Capable Of Genuinely Liking Others, At Least At The Actual Moment Of Meeting And Speaking. Charm Is Always Genuine; It May Be Superficial But It Isn't False.

I Still Occasionally Need To Struggle But I Now Fear It Less. The Weapons I Fight It With Are Also My Consolations: Books, Music, Food, Wine, Nature.