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"To be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer."
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"To be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer."
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"Maybe curiosity did kill your cat. But it wouldn't hurt to keep an eye on the neighbor's rottweiler just the same."
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"Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely."
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"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway."
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"Get money when you don't need it, so you can use it when you need to."
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"No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."
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"Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy."
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"Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them."
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"People always call it luck when you have acted more sensibly than others."
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"Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection."
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"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."
Knowledge
"May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law."
Life
"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."
Life
"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."
Ethics
"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."
Evil
"Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'"
War
"The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him."
Desire
"If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all."
Progress
"Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected..."
Ethics
"An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty."
Morality
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