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Human Nature Quotes
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth"
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Umberto Eco
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends."
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Walt Whitman
"Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other"
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John Steinbeck
"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in"
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Henry James
"Men act like brutes only when they do not understand what is true or good."
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"Beware of the man who does not return your blow; he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
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George Bernard Shaw
"The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar"
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Niccolo Machiavelli
"It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man"
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Democritus
"One cannot live through a day without revealing oneself."
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Italo Calvino
"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side"
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Khalil Gibran
"Man is an animal that makes bargains no other animal does this no dog exchanges bones with another"
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Adam Smith
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues"
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Rene Descartes
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