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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
