"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."

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"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."

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"Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived."

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"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."

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"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

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"Desire is the essence of a man."

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"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."

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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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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."

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"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."

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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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"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."

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