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.
F. H. BRADLEYTrue penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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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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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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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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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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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