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A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

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It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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Newspapers are the second hand of history.

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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

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Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

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All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

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It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

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Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

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For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.

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