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Human Nature Quotes

"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey"
Soren Kierkegaar
"Man will become better when you show him what he is like."
Anton Chekhov
"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."
Anton Chekhov
"We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us"
Charles Darwin
"The more refined one is, the more unhappy"
Anton Chekhov
"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable"
Anton Chekhov
"Man is a social animal"
Baruch Spinoza
"The greatest pride or the greatest despair arises from love of fame"
Baruch Spinoza
"It is not power that corrupts but fear"
Aung San Suu Kyi
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups"
George Carlin
"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist"
George Carlin
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact"
Honoré de Balzac
"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love"
Henry Miller
"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear"
Michel de Montaigne
"We are all framed of frailty and error let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly that is the first law of nature"
Michel de Montaigne
"People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them"
Harper Lee
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes."
William Faulkner
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today"
Dale Carnegie
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction "
Erich Fromm
"The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come"
Dante Alighieri