"The instinct of a man is to..." - Quote by Voltaire
The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
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“The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.”
“But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.”
“One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.”
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“We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.”
“The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.”
“If there was a pill that allowed you to drink and not get drunk, an alcoholic would go "What happens if you take two?"”
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“The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.”
“I was a coward on instinct.”
“Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.”