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Than Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
- The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
- It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
- There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
- Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we…
- Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
- We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
- Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
- Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
- Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
- We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to…
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