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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
— Joseph Brodsky
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Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for…
— Charlie Brooker
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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
— William Hazlitt
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Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it…
— Todd Solondz
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Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted.…
— Steven Pinker
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
— Bill Hicks
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
— Andre Malraux
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You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's…
— Miranda July
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