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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.

F. H. Bradley

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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Goodness Reason Teaching
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation

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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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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