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Human Nature Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to…
- The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show…
- In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the…
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- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. — Henry Adams
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- It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what… — William Bernbach