88. I Said This Once Before, but People Do Not Believe It When I Say So

One begins to distrust very clever persons when they become embarrassed. Heavy, melancholy men turn lighter by that which makes others heavy by hatred and love. In affability there is no hatred of men but precisely on that account a great deal too much contempt of men. To be ashamed of one's immorality is a step on the latter at the end of which one is ashamed also of one's morality.