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"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
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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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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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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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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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"It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance."
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"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."
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"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."
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"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."
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"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
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"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."
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"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
Nature

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
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"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."
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"So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it."
Man
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