#human-nature

"Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds."

"I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary."

"It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense."

"There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep."

"People won't buy study guides for a dollar, but they will pay 100 dollars for test answers. A ‪#startup‬‬‬‬ should keep this mentality in mind."

"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."

"The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition"

"Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves."

"For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him."

"Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan manusia. Seni menciptakan rasa empati"

"The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices."

"People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up."

"Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations."

"A person feels the pain in judicious proportion to the sensitive nature cherished in own world; otherwise there is enough fun, happiness, enjoyment and pleasure in life."

"While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil."

"There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time."

"Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire."

"This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls."