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

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There is nothing higher than reason.

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When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

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Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

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Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather.

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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

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All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

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The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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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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Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

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Beneficence is a duty.

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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

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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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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

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When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

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