Behavior Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about behavior.

Jane Austen

Jane Austen

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I have been a selfish being all my life, not in theory, but in practice.

Paul Auster

Paul Auster

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If justice exists, it has to be for everyone; no one can be excluded, otherwise it wouldn't be justice anymore.

Francisco Ayala

Francisco Ayala

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The greed is the most selfless of passions, as it demands self-denial, sometimes of heroic magnitude.

Marcel Aymé

Marcel Aymé

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Some people are so fake that they are no longer aware that they think just the opposite of what they say.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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The selfish person would be capable of setting fire to the neighbor's house to fry an egg.

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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An egotist is a person who thinks more about themselves than about me.

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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Patience: a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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A coward is a person in whom the instinct of self-preservation still functions normally.

William Blake

William Blake

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The one who feeds on repressed desires eventually rots.

William Blake

William Blake

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Those who suppress desire do so because it is weak enough to be suppressed.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

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It is a human thing to have compassion for the afflicted; and this, which seems good in every person, should be most demanded of those who needed comfort and found it in others.