Being nice doesnโt make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.
C. S. LewisBut in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isnโt yet, or used to be Human once and isnโt now, or ought to be Human and isnโt, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.
C. S. LewisActually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.
C. S. LewisHe who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
C. S. LewisOne of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.
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