Why should a man be bad, however much he may lie and deceive? One must certainly take measures to protect oneself; one should not let oneself be deceived, and where the other party is too strong one should restrain him by law, so that authority shall render him harmless. But it is barbarous to judge a man's being by his actions. For who has got to the stage in which his actions are the complete expression of his soul? I have never seen such a man.
—Count Hermann Keyserling, The Travel Diary of a Philosopher, chapter 38. Translated by J. Holroyd Reece.
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