The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.
The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.