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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence
Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt
A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast
Bad men are full of repentance
How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!
Cruelty and fear shake hands together
All cruelty springs from weakness
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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