Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
F. H. BRADLEYWhere everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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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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The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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