The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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