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Human-nature Quotes

"Beware of the man who does not return your blow; he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause"

"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on."

"Forbid us something and that thing we desire"

"One can be the master of what one does but never of what one feels."

"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."

"People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right "

"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet."

"Without madness, there is no humanity."

"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them"

"Intelligent people need a fool to lead them."

"People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive"

"I believe in the flesh and the appetites"

"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous."

"It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side, which consists not just of little weaknesses—and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism"

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