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Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

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Tao loves and nourishes all things, but does not dominate it over them.

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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

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You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

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The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.

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He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

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when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.

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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

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The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

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I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

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