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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"
Adam Smith
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues"
Rene Descartes
"Custom is the great guide of human life"
David Hume
"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. "
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."
Katherine Hepburn
"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."
Oscar Wilde
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Oscar Wilde
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Oscar Wilde
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
Agatha Christie
"It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Men are cruel, but Man is kind."
Rabindranath Tagore
"What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"You must feel attraction toward someone before you know anything about them. "
Russell Brand
"Desire is rooted in the unexpected and the unknown."
Esther Perel
"In desire, we experience a paradox: we seek the other in order to find ourselves."
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."
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."
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."
Alain de Botton
"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion"
Edgar Allan Poe
"Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity."
Ezra Pound
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