"If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on."

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Denis Diderot, French Editor

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"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose."

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"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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