#human nature

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Law is born from despair of human nature. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature. ↗

— Margot Kidder

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

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

— Tacitus

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