the fool, but not a very good one

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- Hermann Hesse

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung

There is no sin except stupidity.
- Oscar Wilde

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Eric Hoffer

Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
- Thomas Jefferson

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