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- Justice
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Free
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
- Man
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
- Good
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
- Beauty
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
- Essence
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Desire is the essence of a man.
- Great
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
- Proud
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
- Fear
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
- Humble
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
- Ignorance
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
- Feel
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
- Free
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
- Desire
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
- Good
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
- Contrary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
- Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
- Life
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- Essence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Desire is the very essence of man.
- Excellent
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- Nov 07, 2020
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
- Nov 07, 2020
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020