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Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

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What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

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To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.

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Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

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Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

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But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

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"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

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Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

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At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

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The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

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"Lord bless you!" said Mr. Omer, resuming his pipe, "a man must take the fat with the lean; that's what he must make up his mind to, in this life. "

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"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

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No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

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Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

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