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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

F. H. Bradley

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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Cost exchange Myself Price Run
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Finding Naked Philosophy Truth
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
I will begin with the self-styled “Christian” party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.
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Beginning Discussion Follow Myself Profession
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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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Goodness Reason Teaching
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
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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Application Encouragement Feeling
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
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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Attraction Change Economy Help Sympathy Wisdom

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