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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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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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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

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When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

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One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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

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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

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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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I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

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Isn't it really quite extraordinary to see that, since man took his first step, no one has asked himself why he walks, how he walks, if he has ever walked, if he could walk better, what he achieves in walking .. questions that are tied to all the philosophical, psychological, and political systems which preoccupy the world.

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

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