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The test of whether you really liked a book is if you reread it (and how many times); the test of whether you really liked someone’s company is if you are ready to meet him again and again—the rest is spin, or that variety of sentiment now called self-esteem.
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We ask “why is he rich (or poor)?” not “why isn’t he richer (or poorer)?”; “why is the crisis so deep?” not “why isn’t it deeper?”.
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Hatred is much harder to fake than love. You hear of fake love; never of fake hate.
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The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology
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Usually, what we call “good listener” is someone with skillfully polished indifference.
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It is the appearance of inconsistency, and not its absence, that makes people attractive.
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You remember emails you sent that were not answered better than emails that you did not answer.
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People reserve standard compliments for those who do not threaten their pride; the others they often praise by calling “arrogant”.
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Since Cato the Elder, a certain type of maturity has shown up when one starts blaming the new generation for “shallowness” and praising the previous one for its “values”.
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It is as difficult to avoid bugging others with advice on how to exercise and other health matters as it is to stick to an exercise schedule.
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By praising someone for his lack of defects you are also implying his lack of virtues.
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When she shouts that what you did was unforgivable, she has already started to forgive you.
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Being unimaginative is only a problem when you are easily bored.
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We call narcissistic those individuals who behave as if they were the central residents of the world; those who do exactly the same in a set of two we call lovers.
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Friendship that ends was never one; there was at least one sucker in it.
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Most people fear being without audiovisual stimulation because they are too repetitive when they think and imagine things on their own.
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Unrequited hate is vastly more diminishing for the self than unrequited love. You can’t react by reciprocating.
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For the compassionate, sorrow is more easily displaced by another sorrow, than by joy.
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Wisdom in the young is as unattractive as frivolity in the elderly.
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Some people are only funny when they try to be serious.
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It is difficult to stop the impulse to reveal secrets in conversation, as if information had the desire to live and the power to multiply.
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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 本体论的东西
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把观察不到的东西当成不存在，这是近来开始流行的一种疾病。
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