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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
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What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
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We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
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