Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.
Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
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