#human nature

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. ↗

— Sallust

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. ↗

— Laurence Stern

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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt. ↗

— Tacitus

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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. ↗

— William Howard Taft

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Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. ↗

— Terence

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Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

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Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. ↗

— Lynne Cheney

#certainly #competitive #drive #expecting #face

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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