My belief about human nature is best summarized by the thoughts of Fr. Montaigne. I think that the idea that man is hypocritical and contradictory is a true idea. All people, whether they like it or not, have opposing characteristics. These undesirable attributes are prevailing in everybody. Not one person, of reasonable intelligence, can truthfully say that they have never lied. Even, if they are mostly truthful, there is time in everybody's life that a lie, a falsehood, an untruth is present. It would be ignorant to say that one single person is immune from the trait. …
