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Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

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This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.

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With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

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The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

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Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

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In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.

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Great minds think for themselves.

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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

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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.

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If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

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[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.

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Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.

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