The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. BRADLEYUp to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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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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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 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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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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