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"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
Power
"Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."
Hesitation
"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
Men
"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."
Friendship
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
Desire
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
God
"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
Mind
"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."
Happiness
"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved."
Men
"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."
Life
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