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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

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There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

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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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For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

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What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

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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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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

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

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Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

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All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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He that is jealous is not in love.

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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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A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

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...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

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