Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect -- don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be
Misanthrope though he might have been, Ambrose Bierce did have a chunk of hard won wisdom.
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