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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

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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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Repeat Silence True Willing
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside… the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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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Application Encouragement Feeling
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

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