"Satire is tragedy plus time." — Lenny Bruce

More Human Nature Quotes

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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
• Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
• Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
• Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries… — Jane Austen
• The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be… — Diane Ackerman
• Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our… — James A. Baldwin
• In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious.… — Alan Ball
• Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself… — Honore de Balzac
• Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. — Henry Adams
• During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away… — Bernard Baruch
• It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned… — William Bernbach

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