"Pity has an almost ludicrous effect on a person of knowledge--life tender hands on a Cyclops." "Objection, evasion, distrust, and love of contradiction are signs of health." "In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame." "Poets are shameless in their explotation of experience." "When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is generally something wrong with her sexual nature." "One must be proud of one's enemies." "There is a haughtiness of kindness that resembles wickedness." "People rarely understand greatness or its causes, but they have a taste for its representatives, even when ther're only acting." "How nicely doggish lust begs for a piece of spirit when it has been denied a piece of flesh!" "Not when the truth is filthy, but when it is shallow, does a person of character step unwillingly into its waters."

I just want to note that I do not agree with all/most of these quotes.  If you would like to comment on them, then please do so (please be specific on which quote you are speaking when commenting).

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"The happiness and unhappiness of the rational animal depends not on what he feels, but on what he does."          - Marcus Aurebus/Meditations "One must be an inventor to read well."          - Emerson "A man is a method, a pprogressive arrangement a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes.  What you are comes to you."          - Emerson "If the past is perpetually driven back by the future, and the future has yet to occur then how can we be sure that they exist?"          - Aurelius (St.) Augustine "Poets and storytellers are guilty of the gravest misstatements when they show wicked people as happy and good people as miserable."          - Plato "The simple and moderate desires that follow reason, and are under the guidance of mind and true opinion, are to be found only in a few, and these the best born and education, thus are the meaner desires of the many held down by the virtuous desires and wisdom of the few."          - Plato "Which is more profitable, to be just and got justly, whether seen or unseen by the gods and others, or to be unjust and act unjustly, if only upon, shed and unreformed?" - Plato "Judges should not be young.  They should have learned to know evil not from their own souls but from long observation of evil in others.  Knowledge should be their guide, not personal experience."          - Plato "Democracy has its good qualities, at which the insatiable desire brings it to dissolution."          - Plato "In general things that serve the body have less truth than things that serve the soul." - Plato "IN cremental pain is as rich in hope as aggregate loss is laden with delusion." - P. H. "Forgiveness is a condition of knowing what is owed." - P. H. "Excessive honesty is error."          - Theodor Adorno "There is but one principle of sexual ethics:  the accuser is always wrong." - Theodor Adorno "War is the father of all things."          -Heroclitus