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"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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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."
"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."
"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
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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."
"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."
"The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once."
"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."
"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."
"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct."
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