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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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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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

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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

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The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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

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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

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

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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

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You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

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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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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

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A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

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