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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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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
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Goodness Reason Teaching
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 one self- knowledge worth having is to know one’s own mind.
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Discover Knowledge Mindset Oneself Worth
But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
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Desire Oneself
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.
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Alone Finding Himself Man Nature Thinking
I can myself conceive of nothing else than the experienced.
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Experience Myself
His mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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Ideas Mindset Open Simplicity
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
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Death Enemy Knowledge Virtue
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
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Experience Fix Genuine Impression True
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 world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Best Evil Necessary Possible World
Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Acceptance Goodness Hard Time Knowledge Worst
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

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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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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