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If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

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The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

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The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done.

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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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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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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

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A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

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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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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

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What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

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Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

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

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