Ambiguity is a loss of any sensitivity to the distinction between genuine understanding and superficial chatter.
Ambiguity is a form of inauthenticity (structured temporally by the present) characterized by the inability to tell what is idle talk or mere curiosity, and what is indeed deep.
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management of human affairs.
Concentration is difficult -- sometimes our only hope is to be distracted from distraction by distraction.
Corruption is a quality of men who possess a refined cruelty - witty and slanderous. Such men know types of murder that require neither daggers nor assault.
Corruption is the warlike passions transmuted into countless private passions. as such, it is precisely in times of corruption and 'exhaustion (i.e. times when tragedy runs through houses and streets) that great love and great hatred are born and that the flame of knowledge flares up into the sky.
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