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"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
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"Faithfulness to one's word is one of the principles of discipline."
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"The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character."
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"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."
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"Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence."
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"You become a hypocrite when you can't freely be at peace with others, but you can carry green palm leaves to church to commemorate "palm Sunday"! Throw those palm leaves somewhere; and lay your life down for someone to walk on and get to the destined land!"
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"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."
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"Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended."
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"I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as they would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not, like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them."
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"I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my suppressed rage, that I am punctual only only to hide how little I care about other peoples time."
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"If stupidity were a gift, only a few would have it."
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
Intelligence
"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."
God
"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."
Love
"The ego is not master in its own house."
Ego
"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
Progress
"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."
Trust
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
Dream
"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
Act
"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."
Time
"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
Illusion
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