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"Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity."

Johnson on humankind    Share


"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."

Epictetus on adversity
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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time."

Collier, Robert on adversity
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"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."

Jung, Carl on addiction
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"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."

Forster, Edward M. on acquaintance
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"To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better."

Claudius on wish and wishing
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"Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil."

Aurelius, Marcus on evil
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"We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come."

Chapman, Maria Weston on evil    Share

"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

Baudelaire, Charles on evil
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"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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