One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. BRADLEYThe deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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