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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

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[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, ...more

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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we ten...more

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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds e...more

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A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily c...more

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For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money ...more