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Human nature Quotes
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe"
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else"
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Roald Dahl
"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves "
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman"
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Plato
"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive"
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Blaise Pascal
"When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything."
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Umberto Eco
"We never love anyone. We love only our idea of what someone is like. We love an idea of our own; in short, it is ourselves that we love."
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Fernando Pessoa
"We all have a contract with reality that’s bound by trust; the less realistic our ideals are, the more we tend to misinterpret our surroundings."
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Alberto Moravia
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst"
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David Hume
"Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men the good and the bad But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue"
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David Hume
"There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way"
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Leo Tolstoy
"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"The essence of government is power and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse "
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James Madison
"The function of evil is to divide, separate"
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Toni Morrison
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