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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

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If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

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Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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The man that hath no music in himself

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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Never was anything great achieved without danger.

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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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From a philosophical perspective, I want to fight off isolationism and protectionism, be it part of another voice out there that says, wait a minute, what matters to women in Afghanistan matters to America. An isolationist point of view says it doesn't matter. The articulation of "all life matters" helps frame the case that it does matter what happens to a woman in Afghanistan.

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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

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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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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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