“Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.” A moderating observation on human character · Table Talk, 19 April 1830 Character Judgement Morality
“If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.” A stark moral observation on the impossibility of moral stasis · Table Talk, 30 August 1833 Character Morality Soul
