human-nature quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down."
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."
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"The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely."
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"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."
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"To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say."
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
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"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
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"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
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"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."
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"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."
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"There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth."
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