"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism." — Henri Frederic Amiel

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• The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
• No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
• Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the… — Margaret Atwood
• I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I… — Kevin Bacon
• A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,… — Mikhail Bakunin
• What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the… — Roland Barthes
• No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath… — Bruce Barton
• It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.… — Saint Basil
• The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille
• Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had… — Joseph Addison
• When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of… — Ezra Taft Benson
• In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most… — Alfred Adler

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