The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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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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My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside… the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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