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Why one contradicts. We often contradict an opinion, while actually it is only the tone with which it was advanced that we find disagreeable.

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Trust and intimacy.¹ someone assiduously seeks to force intimacy with another person, he usually is not sure whether he possesses that person's trust. If someone is sure of being trusted, he places little value on intimacy.

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Balance of friendship. Sometimes in our relationship to another person, the right balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of injustice² on our own side of the scale.

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The most dangerous doctors. The most dangerous doctors are those born actors who imitate born doctors with perfect deceptive art.

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When paradoxes are appropriate. At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.