505. He is extremely slippery. When he is undergoing punishments and is frightened, he promises all things, and admits the truth - thus from fear, as well as from falsehood or lying - to the point where one cannot imagine but that it comes from the heart, when yet it is only from the mouth. At heart he is entertaining something different. He has so very little left [of what is human], that if purged, he could lose his identity.* * The manuscript has no paragraph 506.