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.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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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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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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