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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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Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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

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A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

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There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

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

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Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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

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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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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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