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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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As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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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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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

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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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The patient must minister to himself

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

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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

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The secret to humor is surprise.

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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

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Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

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That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

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

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A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day.

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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

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