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Human-nature Quotes

"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses."

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood"

"Fear can be good. It’s an evolutionary sense that we’ve developed over many, many millions of years."

"Sin is a spiritual and moral malignancy"

"The best crime novels are about the ordinary things that bring people into extraordinary situations."

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

"The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half"

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition"

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging."

"The more man alienates himself from the world around him, the more he alienates himself also from his own inner world"

"With no power to annul the elemental evil in him, though readily enough he could hide it; apprehending the good, but powerless to be it a varnish of conventionalities hiding his barbaric core"

"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."

"We're all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it."

"The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all."

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