"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."
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"Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare."
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"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
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"He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly."
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"No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand."
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"I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them."
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"In the mind there is no absolute or free will."
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"A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain."
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"Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination."
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"The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished."
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"We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness."
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"Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak."
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"Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity."
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"Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love."
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"I call him free who is led solely by reason."
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"...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present."
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"Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals."
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"Desire is the essence of a man."
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"The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them."
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"We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life."
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