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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

F. H. Bradley

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
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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Bad Believe Finding Instinct Physics Reason
Another occupation might have been better.
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Better Choice Job Occupation
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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Repeat Silence True Willing
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
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Care Fear Man
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 deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Interest Person Shock
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
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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Neighbor Person Thinking
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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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Blow Fly Force Resistance Temptation
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
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself

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