In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
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Beauty is not diminished by being shared.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.
The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.
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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
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Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
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Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.
