By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.