The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. BRADLEYThe 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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His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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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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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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