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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
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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Himself Human Hunter Mindset Nature Water
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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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
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
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
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
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
The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path, whatever it may be, and whatever the world thinks of it; and if he does not, he is contemptible.
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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking

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