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

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

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Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

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...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

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Democracy passes into despotism.

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Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

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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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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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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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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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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

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In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

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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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There is a tide in the affairs of men

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The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

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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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When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

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Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

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Life's uncertain voyage.

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