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.
F. H. BRADLEYHis mind is so open – so open that ideas simply pass through it.
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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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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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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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The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
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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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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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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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Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.
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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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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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Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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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