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

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The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!

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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

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I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

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This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

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

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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

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Nature does nothing in vain.

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

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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

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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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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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Who is it that can tell me who I am?

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