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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

F. H. Bradley

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart’s blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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Blood Experience Heart Live Ourselves Writing
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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 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
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
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
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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Arrival Children Knowledge Marriage Wife
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
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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
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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Goodness Himself Learning Man Reputation Understand World
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man

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