Human Nature

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It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt.
 Tacitus Agricola
 100

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
 Tennessee Williams
 Camino Real, 1953

Many people believe they attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
 Wm Ralph Inge
 More Lay Thoughts, 1931

Man is the measure of all things.
 Protagorus
 -485

Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
 Blaise Pascal
 Pensees, 1670

In soft regions are born soft men.
 Herodotus
 -455

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
 Mark Twain
 Following the Equator, 1897

Human kind Cannot bear very much reality.
 T S Eliot
 Four Quartets, 1936

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.
 Joseph Conrad
 The Secret Agent, 1907

Man is a tool-making animal.
 Ben Franklin
 1778

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
 Plato
 -400

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