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Human Nature Quotes
"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
"Custom is the great guide of human life"
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David Hume
"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. "
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Katherine Hepburn
"Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents."
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Katherine Hepburn
"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."
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Oscar Wilde
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
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Oscar Wilde
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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Oscar Wilde
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
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Agatha Christie
"It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple."
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Rabindranath Tagore
"Men are cruel, but Man is kind."
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Rabindranath Tagore
"What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing"
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Geoffrey Chaucer
"You must feel attraction toward someone before you know anything about them. "
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Russell Brand
"Desire is rooted in the unexpected and the unknown."
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Esther Perel
"In desire, we experience a paradox: we seek the other in order to find ourselves."
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Esther Perel
"When we seek the gaze of another, it isn’t always our partner we are turning to—it’s the other in ourselves."
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Esther Perel
"We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease."
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Alain de Botton
"Anyone who tries to make love disappear from life without considering its causes is like someone who executes a judge without bothering first to find out what crime he was tried for."
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Alain de Botton
"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion"
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Edgar Allan Poe
"Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity."
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Ezra Pound
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