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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason

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whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real w...more

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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

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I call him free who is led solely by reason.

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All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and pa...more

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aquele que quer responder às injúrias com o ódio vive na tristeza ou na mágoa, aquele que quer vencer o ódio com o amor combate alegremente e sem temo...more

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those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious

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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from ...more