Jeremy Bentham - Human Quotes

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In principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

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The infirmity of human nature renders all plans precarious in the execution in proportion as they are extensive in design.

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Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure … There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.

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Kind words cost no more than unkind ones... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

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