Mason Cooley quotes - page 2

People may show jealousy, but hide their envy. (Mason Cooley)
Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.
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When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.
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Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.
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Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.
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Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.
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I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.
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Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.
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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
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Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. (Mason Cooley)
Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
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Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
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Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
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The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
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Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
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Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
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Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
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Money: power at its most liquid.
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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
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The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head. (Mason Cooley)
Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
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Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
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When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
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To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
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