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Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
The good that I would do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.
Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.
The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
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