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Human-nature Quotes

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today"

"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst"

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."

"We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes."

"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."

"Men act like brutes only when they do not understand what is true or good."

"To understand is to forgive"

"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."

"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."

"Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit"

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."

"We are determined by the fact of birth, by the bodily and mental structure we bring into the world"

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god."

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped"

"There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts."

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