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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

— Saint Teresa of Avila

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We are not by nature cruel.

— J. M. Coetzee

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

— Alice Walker

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

— Plato

Most of the time, we make discoveries about how difficult people are at the moment when the difficulties have actually hurt us; therefore, we are not likely to be forgiving or sympathetic.

— Alain de Botton

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

— Francis of Assisi

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

— Will Durant

✗Opposing Perspectives

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

— Colin Quinn

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

— Voltaire

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

— Bo Bennett