He is a worthy enemy - but that's just to say, he would not be worthy an he were not able; but he would not be an enemy were he not evil.
...but businessmen check them out - and those two were merchants. If they stray too far from the facts, they go bankrupt.
For this 'honor' that thou dost hold dear, this 'face' thou speakest of , is most truly but thine own opinion of thyself. We commonly suppose that 'tis what others think of us, but 'tis not so. 'Tis simply that most of us have so little regard for ourselves, that we believe others opinions of us to be more important than our own. Therefore have we the need to save our countenances - our 'faces,' which term means only what others see of us. Yet we know that only by what they
say they think of us - so our 'faces,' when all is truly said, are others' opinions of us. We feel we must demand others' respect, or we cannot respect ourselves.
Let me tell you what that is - a rationalization. It's giving something the appearance of rationality, of reason, when it doesn't have the reality of it. It's finding a way to justify what you want to do, any way. It's finding an excuse from somthing you've already done - a way to make it seem to be good, when it really isn't. That's all you're doing here - tying to find a way to make the wrong things you want to do, seem right. All your arguments really boil down to, 'I want power, so I'm going to take it.' ...