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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

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Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

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LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.

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The best things in life make you sweaty.

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

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One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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

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There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

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Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

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That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

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