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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

F. H. Bradley

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
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
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
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
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
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
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
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 man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man

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