Life is very hard. If you make yourself weak, and you suffer stupidly because of it, you will become bitter, and once you become bitter, you will become vengeful. And after vengeful, there is no limit. That’s one of the things I learned from studying totalitarianism in the twentieth century…If you make yourself weak by engaging in deceit, if you fail to take responsibility, you transform yourself into something that cannot bear to endure the structure of existence. And you will torture yourself, and that leads to very bad places. [21:53]
