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“A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.”

Littles Two Enough Three Secret Too Much Secrecy

Author:James Howell

“Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.”

People Thinking World Moments Memories Secret Too Much Poet Findings Originals Everyday Forgotten Familiar Unfamiliar Outside World Guarded Visitation Secret Places

Book:The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis

Source: The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis

“Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.”

Mind Religion Jesus Left Secret Christianity Too Much Sweet Balance Method Intuition Catholicism Great Power Left Out Protestantism Reasonableness

Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

“All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.”

Ifs Perfect Secret Too Much Dangerous Ought Circumstances Occasions Not Perfect All Occasions

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.”

Ifs Two Secret Too Much Car Example Europe Oil Guides Fuel Expensive Efficient Coping

Author:Paul Krugman

“Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.”

Children Secret Too Much Soup Kettles

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.”

Ifs Thinking Men Littles Said Secret Too Much Dangerous Ought Safe Absolutes Occasions

Author:Francis Beaumont

“You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.”

People Way Children Important Dream Lasts Hurt Secret Forever Too Much Changed Depends Decided Died It Hurts Being There Being Hurt

Author:Audre Lorde

“The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.”

Littles Self Secret Half Opinion Too Much Self Love Conversation Mark

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I think the secret is to understand that you still want to be part of the game. To do so, you have to forget all the victories you've managed to get in the previous years and have a great humility. You also need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home.”

“I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.”

Want Giving Trying Character Understanding Answers Secret Too Much Connections Tables I Want You

Author:Nicolas Cage

“The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.”

Secret Too Much Conscious Moved Access Unconscious Rationality Exceptional

Author:Carl Jung

“Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.”

Remember Secret Too Much Promise Wine Drinking

Author:Miguel de Cervantes