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Human-nature Quotes
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought you had to have it and it could only be good."
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life"
"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."
"Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess"
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
"People are bloody ignorant apes."
"The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children."
"The sun also shines on the wicked"
"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves"
"Wealth is the slave of the wise man, the master of the fool."
"The true creator is necessity, who is the mother"
"The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power as he will himself for the preservation of his own nature that is to say of his own life"
"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others"
"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves"
"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends"
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