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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

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The Gay Science, section 108

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Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.

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Punishment is justice for the unjust.

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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

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...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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Happiness is the highest good

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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

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The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

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One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.

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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

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From a philosophical perspective, I want to fight off isolationism and protectionism, be it part of another voice out there that says, wait a minute, what matters to women in Afghanistan matters to America. An isolationist point of view says it doesn't matter. The articulation of "all life matters" helps frame the case that it does matter what happens to a woman in Afghanistan.

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