The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
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And how he keeps
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nothing
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How lovely and joyful the course that he run!
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SIGMUND FREUD Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis SIGMUND FREUD We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by f... SIGMUND FREUD We hate the criminal and deal severely with him, because we view in his deeds as in a distorting mir... SIGMUND FREUD I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them ... SIGMUND FREUD People are made either to sufffer or to destroy. SIGMUND FREUD Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love ... SIGMUND FREUD If you can't do it, give up! SIGMUND FREUD Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men t... SIGMUND FREUD Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness SIGMUND FREUD No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some wa... SIGMUND FREUD Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind towa... SIGMUND FREUD Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past SIGMUND FREUD I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, ar... SIGMUND FREUD Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief SIGMUND FREUD The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi... SIGMUND FREUD Psychoanalysis is for hysterical pathological cases, not for silly rich American women who should be... SIGMUND FREUD Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way... SIGMUND FREUD The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may b... SIGMUND FREUD He does not believe that does not live according to his belief. SIGMUND FREUD Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty an... SIGMUND FREUD Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled t... SIGMUND FREUD The fetish is a substitute for the mother's penis that the little boy had once believed in and does ... SIGMUND FREUD O homem não tem nada melhor para fazer do que tentar estar em perfeito acordo consigo mesmo. SIGMUND FREUD When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment;... SIGMUND FREUD My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. SIGMUND FREUD ...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exert... SIGMUND FREUD