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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

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One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.

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Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

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I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

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Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

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A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

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I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

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It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

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