"Philosophy begins with wonder."
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"We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own."
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"Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good."
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"When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you."
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"Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody."
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"The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else."
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"Youth loves honor and victory more than money."
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"To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill."
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"The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward."
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"The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class."
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"We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea."
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"A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic."
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"All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature."
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"We must become just be doing just acts."
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"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."
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"The physician heals, Nature makes well."
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"Teaching is the highest form of understanding."
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"The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts."
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"It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen."
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"Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire."
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