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1. “Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.”

Abraham Lincoln

Perseverance, Human Nature, Change, Adaptability

2. “Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.”

Mark Twain

Human Nature, Mystery, Duality, Individuality, Secrecy

3. “She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries.”

Charles Dickens

Melancholy, Emotion, Luxury, Reflection, Human Nature

4. “Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.”

Winston Churchill

Danger, Desperation, Warning, Conflict, Human Nature

5. “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

Winston Churchill

Truth, Realization, Ignorance, Awareness, Human Nature

6. “When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.”

Mark Twain

Society, Intelligence, Irony, Human Nature, Satire

7. “It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t.”

Abraham Lincoln

Humor, Trust, Secrecy, Wit, Human Nature

8. “Everybody likes a compliment.”

Abraham Lincoln

Compliments, Human Nature, Positivity, Interactions, Happiness

9. “All emotion is involuntary when genuine.”

Mark Twain

Emotion, Authenticity, Human Nature, Involuntary, Feelings

10. “Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.”

Mark Twain

Human Nature, Success, Failure, Society, Reflection

11. “Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.”

Marcus Aurelius

Human Nature, Ego, Flattery, Comparison, Self-worth, Ambition

12. “It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance, and mystery than by facts.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Curiosity, Gossip, Human Nature, Perception, Media

13. “Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.”

Winston Churchill

Trust, Irony, Human Nature, Vice, Character

14. “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

Oscar Wilde

Friendship, Success, Empathy, Human Nature, Reflection

15. “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

Mark Twain

Human Nature, Mystery, Individuality, Secrecy, Duality

16. “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

Mark Twain

Courage, Morality, Human Nature, Reflection, Strength

17. “Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God’s decree and can never be reversed.”

Abraham Lincoln

Persuasion, Kindness, Influence, Human Nature, Faith

18. “I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Human Nature, Morality, Perspective, Wisdom, Empathy

19. “Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.”

C.S. Lewis

Forgiveness, Human Nature, Experience, Reflection, Enjoyment

20. “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

Mark Twain

Human Nature, Madness, Mystery, Understanding, Life

21. “The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”

Mark Twain

Human Nature, Animals, Trust, Humor, Irony

22. “Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hope, Reality, Suffering, Evil, Human Nature

23. “Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.”

Abraham Lincoln

Motivational, Legacy, Self-interest, Human Nature, Labor

24. “Human nature will not change.”

Abraham Lincoln

Human nature, Consistency, Philosophy, Understanding, Reality

25. “The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.”

Nelson Mandela

Identity, Humility, Authenticity, Human Nature, Self-Awareness

26. “The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.”

Mark Twain

April Fool's Day, Humor, Reflection, Irony, Human Nature

27. “Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”

Mark Twain

Life, Death, Perspective, Irony, Human Nature

28. “I am only human, although I regret it.”

Mark Twain

Human Nature, Humor, Imperfection, Reflection, Identity

29. “A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor – it is a fixed characteristic of human nature; and, when he has fifty or a hundred others to back him, he will show it.”

George Orwell

Charity, Human Nature, Resentment, Society, Observation

30. “By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.”

George Orwell

Society, Modernity, Values, Human Nature, Discontent

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