A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFERWe run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
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Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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