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What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.

Eric Hoffer

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Deep Faith Lost Wisdom
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
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Empty Hate Life Passionate Purpose
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective
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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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
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Enough Happiness Need Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
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Belief Devil God Rise
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
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Eyes Fade Hide Imperfection Ourselves Reveal Scars
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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Goodness Greatness Luck Man Right Time
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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Attraction Evil Power Promise Weakness
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.
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Achievement Future Greatness Leaving Life People Reason Yourself
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Charm Difference Growth Stupidity

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