The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. BRADLEYWhere everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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I will begin with the self-styled “Christian” party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
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The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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