Human Nature Quotes

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but" "To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment" "The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others" "Human kind cannot bear very much reality" "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly" "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell." "Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives." "I’m interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too." "Hunger is the best sauce in the world." "Where envy reigns virtue can't live." "Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming" "Nature designed us to need nourishing relationships to survive" "I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irrevocably cynical." "I never trust people with no appetite. It’s like they’re always holding something back on you." "Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete." "One can be the master of what one does but never of what one feels." "Wealth is the slave of the wise man, the master of the fool." "The urge to ascend in control, the drive to survive, is rooted deep in our evolutionary past." "The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time immemorial."