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I have found little that is “good” about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership… these are scientific values we can point to.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.