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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains
Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will
There is no rampart that will hold out against malice
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence
Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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