The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another. . . has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. . . . makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.