"Your reputation is who you are based on everything someone thinks they know about you. Your character is who you are even if you're the only one who knows. And your integrity, the real measure, is how closely those two things align."
Characters formed within one society and living in circumstances where their dispositions are no longer needed — characters in time of great social change — are likely to be tragic. Their virtues lie useless or even foiled; they are no longer recognized for what they are; their motives and actions are misunderstood. The magnanimous man in a petty bourgeois society is seen as a vain fool; the energetic and industrious man in a society that prizes elegance above energy is seen as a bustling boor; the meditative person in an expansive society is seen as melancholic.
4w ago
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
1mo ago
The best way to get what you want is to deserve what you want. It's as simple as that.
2mo ago
The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
When presented with the opportunity for empathy, even performative empathy, he chose escape.
2mo ago
The best way to get what you want is to deserve what you want. It's as simple as that. If you deserve it, you'll get it. If you don't deserve it, you probably won't.
4mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
