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151. “Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Disillusionment, Growing Up, Reality, Perception, Human Nature

152. “She was a dark, unenduring little flower – yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Perception, Misjudgment, Character, Strength, Human Nature

153. “They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Performance, Relationships, Observation, Human Nature, Intimacy

154. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Empathy, Privilege, Judgment, Wisdom, Human Nature

155. “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Heroism, Tragedy, Storytelling, Human Nature, Writing

156. “His dark eyes took me in, and I wondered what they would look like if he fell in love.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Love, Observation, Imagination, Attraction, Human Nature

157. “Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Youth, Nostalgia, Experience, Desire, Human Nature

158. “I'm more beautiful than anybody else," she said brokenly, "why can't I be happy?”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty, Happiness, Self-perception, Dissatisfaction, Human Nature

159. “The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Emptiness, Shame, Human Nature, Psychology, Defense Mechanisms

160. “She was beautiful – but especially she was without mercy.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty, Cruelty, Character, Perception, Human Nature

161. “Forgotten is forgiven.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Forgiveness, Memory, Human Nature, Relationships, Wisdom

162. “When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Youth, Disillusionment, Self-reflection, Life, Human Nature

163. “It takes a genius to whine appealingly.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius, Complaining, Skill, Irony, Human Nature

164. “Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of rightness as if it had been a natural all along.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Change, Self-justification, Human Nature, Perception, Direction

165. “Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Imagination, Fear, Human Nature, Creativity, Psychology

166. “The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Storytelling, Archetypes, Gender Roles, Human Nature, Literature

167. “No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.”

Michel de Montaigne

Profession, Friendship, Human Nature, Irony, Health

168. “No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.”

Michel de Montaigne

Opinion, Judgment, Individuality, Change, Human Nature

169. “We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.”

Michel de Montaigne

Human Nature, Contradiction, Belief, Self-awareness, Psychology

170. “Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.”

Michel de Montaigne

Courage, Wisdom, Human Nature, Fear, Perspective

171. “To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.”

Michel de Montaigne

Death, Individuality, Friendship, Society, Human Nature

172. “Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”

Michel de Montaigne

Appearance, Substance, Human Nature, Critique, Values

173. “Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”

Michel de Montaigne

Love, Education, Childhood, Society, Human Nature

174. “Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.”

Michel de Montaigne

Motivation, Human Nature, Negative Traits, Self-awareness, Psychology

175. “I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence of it is abstruse and occult, but the appearances easy and showy.”

Michel de Montaigne

Hypocrisy, Devotion, Appearance, Reality, Human Nature

176. “If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not want to be considered either so affectionate or so loyal a servant as to be found fit to betray anyone.”

Michel de Montaigne

Honesty, Loyalty, Conscience, Integrity, Human Nature

177. “Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.”

Michel de Montaigne

Religion, Vice, Hypocrisy, Human Nature, Critique

178. “Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our time as best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.”

Michel de Montaigne

Time Management, Wisdom, Human Nature, Efficiency, Critique

179. “To understand via the heart is not to understand.”

Michel de Montaigne

Understanding, Emotion, Reason, Wisdom, Human Nature

180. “A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.”

Michel de Montaigne

Lying, Courage, Cowardice, Morality, Human Nature

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