The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. BRADLEYThe man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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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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Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.
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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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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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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 can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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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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