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A home without books is a body without soul.

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The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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

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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

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Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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Never was anything great achieved without danger.

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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

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

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Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.

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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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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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Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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

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