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 are so with respect to themselves, though an erroneous view of their own miserable self-interest induces them to think otherwise?

Good and evil exist only as they are perceived. I cannot therefore understand, how that which a man perceives to be good can be in reality an evil to him: indeed, the word ‘‘reality’‘ only signifies ‘‘strong belief’‘.

The views of such a man I contend are false. If he could be made to see the truth

He sees his own truth. Truth is that which a man ‘‘troweth’‘. Where there is no man, there is no truth. Thus the truth of one is not the truth of another.