“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.”
Father Zosima's counsel on self-deception: the habit of lying to oneself, even in small things, corrupts the capacity to see truth at all—the most dangerous of moral failures.
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