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“The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.”

Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

French author known for his wit and moral maxims. His works delve deeply into the flaws of human nature and the hypocrisy of society. more

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“We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.”

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“Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!”

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Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

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“I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.”

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“If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.”

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“Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.”

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“Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.”

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“There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.”

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Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit