17/28 Talent is also an adornment; an adornment is also a concealment. The sexes deceive themselves about each other: the reason is that in reality they honour and love only themselves (or their own ideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wishes woman to be peaceable: but in fact woman is ESSENTIALLY unpeaceable, like the cat, however well she may have assumed the peaceable demeanour. One is punished best for one's virtues. He who cannot find the way to HIS ideal, lives more frivolously and shamelessly than the man without an ideal. |