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The object of the superior man is truth.

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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

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My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

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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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LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.

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Who is it that can tell me who I am?

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A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

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The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

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People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.

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God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

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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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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

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You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

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

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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

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