Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
F. H. BRADLEYTrue penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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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 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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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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