Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
F. H. BRADLEYThere are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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