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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

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You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

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The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

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Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

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Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

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We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

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It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

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It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

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In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

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