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“We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)
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“All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
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“The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice”
Carl Gustav Jung quotes (Swiss psychiatrist, Psychologist and Founder of the Analytic Psychology, 1875-1961)
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“There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.”
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“Actions are visible, though motives are secret”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
George Orwell quotes (English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950)
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“Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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“Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.”
Baltasar Gracian quotes (Spanish Philosopher and Writer, leading Spanish exponent of conceptism, 1601-1658)

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