Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
ERIC HOFFERThe greatest weariness comes from work not done.
More Eric Hoffer Quotes
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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We see through others only when we see through ourselves.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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