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"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."

"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
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"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."

"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."

"Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil."
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"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."


"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."


"He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil."


"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."


"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."


"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."


"There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness."


"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."
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