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When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Sigmund Freud

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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Freedom Frightened Involvement People Responsiblity
Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
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Deprivation Love Regard
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.
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Ideas Men Oppose Power Represent Strong
Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
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Condition Construction Psychology Public
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
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Man Soft Weak Woman
If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.
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Ears Funny Listen Marriage Wife Women
Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
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Ability Hallmark Health Imagination Life Love Requirement Work
Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?
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Forget Psycology
The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
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Actual Content Dreams Himself Life Man Virtue Wicked
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
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Drink Knowledge Master Men Mind Ordinary Poet Science Stream
The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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Comparison Deep Inspirational Ourselves Past Person
I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.
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Dreams Drug
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions.
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Audience Decision Happiness Knowledge Magic Power Sorrow Student Teacher Words
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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Civilization Gift Individual Liberty
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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Beauty Civilization Culture Necessary
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion’s eleventh commandment is “Thou shalt not question.
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Confusion Illusion Question Reality Religion System

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