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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

— F. H. Bradley Aphorisms (1930)

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Of Optimism I have said that "The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."

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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

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