Finally, noble manners, bearing, courage, self-confidence,—how they alter the value of that which is attained by means of them!
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Concerning the optics of valuation:—
The influence of the greatness or smallness of the aims.
The influence of the intellectuality of the means. The influence of the behaviour in action. The influence of success or failure. The influence of opposing forces and their value. The influence of that which is permitted and that which is forbidden.
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The tricks by means of which actions, measures, and passions are legitimised, which from an individual standpoint are no longer good form or even in good taste.—
Art, which allows us to enter such strange worlds, makes them tasteful to us.
Historians prove its justification and reason; travels, exoticism, psychology, penal codes, the lunatic asylum, the criminal, sociology.