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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside… the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.
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Feeling Privacy Sensation Soul
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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
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.
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Answer Brain Oneself Suicide
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Admire Happiness Secret
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
Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Belief Deep Man Point Self Love Thinking
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
Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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People Sincere Worst
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth

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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