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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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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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

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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.

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Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam.

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use

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He that is jealous is not in love.

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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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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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

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There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

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