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I wonder if crooks can conceive that honest people can be shrewder than they.
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In Proust there is a character, Morel, who demonizes Nissim Bernard, a Jew who lent him money, and becomes anti-Semitic just so he can escape the feeling of gratitude.
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Promising someone good luck as a reward for good deeds sounds like a bribe; perhaps the remnant of an archaic, pre-deontic pre-classical morality.
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The difference between magnificence and arrogance is in what one does when nobody is looking.
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The nation-state: apartheid without political incorrectness.
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In a crowd of a hundred, fifty percent of the wealth, ninety percent of the imagination and a hundred percent of the intellectual person will reside in a single person—not necessarily the same one.
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Just as dyed hair makes older men less attractive, it is what you do to hide your weaknesses that makes them repugnant.
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For soldiers, we use the term “mercenary”; but we absolve employees of responsibility with “everybody needs to make a living”.
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English does not distinguish between arrogant-up, irreverence towards the temporarily powerful and arrogant-down, directed at the small guy.
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Someone from your social class who becomes poor affects you more than thousands of starving ones outside of it.
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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 强壮与脆弱
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如果你可以失去全部财产，用不着为此而变得谦卑，那你才算是地位稳固。(1)
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要测试一个人对重复性错误的抵抗力，可以当众问他“是不是还过得很艰苦”或者“是不是还在损失金钱”，看他的反应。
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强壮是不会失去耐心的进步。
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如果在两种选择之间摇摆不定，那就两种都别选。
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民族国家喜欢战争，城邦喜欢商业，家庭喜欢稳定，个人喜欢娱乐。
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当你在乎喜欢你作品的少数人甚于不喜欢你作品的多数人时（艺术家），你是强壮的；当你在乎不喜欢你作品的少数人甚于喜欢你作品的多数人时（政客），你是脆弱的。
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理性主义者想象着没有傻瓜的社会；经验主义者想象着不受傻瓜影响的社会，或者更棒的是，不受理性主义者影响的社会。
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学者只有在试图一无用处时才能发挥作用（例如在数学和哲学中），而在试图发挥作用时则会很危险。
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对于强壮的人，错误提供了信息；对于脆弱的人，错误就是错误。
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要衡量你对名誉损失的抵抗力，想想你收到一名记者的邮件时会有什么情绪反应（害怕，开心，无聊）。
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作为一名作家的主要坏处在于，你公开或者私下做的任何事情都不会损害你的名誉，特别是在英国。
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当仇恨对象改变时，原先的仇恨就结束了；一般人没法同时拥有多于一个的敌人。正因为如此，由时而结成同盟、时而互相征战的城邦组成的系统才是强壮的系统。
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