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Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

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Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

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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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There is nothing higher than reason.

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I am myself by inclination an investigator.

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

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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

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God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

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But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

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Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!

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Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

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The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

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When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

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No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

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Honesty is better than any policy.

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