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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

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One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

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

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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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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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The best things in life make you sweaty.

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Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you start from the top.

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Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

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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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The new statement will comprise the skepticisms, as well as the faiths of society, and out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed. For, skepticisms are not gratuitous or lawless, but are limitations of the affirmative statement, and the new philosophy must take them in, and make affirmations outside of them, just as much as must include the oldest beliefs.

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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

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The patient must minister to himself

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

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When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

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