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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#always #cheating #feeling #him #missing

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#emptiness #evil #greatest #hardest #hide

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#being #deed #futile #judge #kind

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#dregs #malcontents #nation #orderly #peaceful

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#frustration #greater #lack #less #many

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#eyes #only #others #people #reflection

A man by himself is in bad company. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#company #himself #man

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#apart #between #compassion #continuous #evil

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. ↗