The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.