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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

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Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

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Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

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[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

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Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.

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Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason.

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I am myself by inclination an investigator.

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Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.

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The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

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All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

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Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

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With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

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Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

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One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

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[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.

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