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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

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The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Never was anything great achieved without danger.

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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

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The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

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cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

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Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

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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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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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