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