"Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family."
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"If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person."
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"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
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"The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation."
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"Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't."
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"..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory."
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"The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow."
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"It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations."
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"Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society."
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"Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so."
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"self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue."
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"The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable."
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"You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation."
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"The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad."
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"True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues."
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"Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science."
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"Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure."
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"[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue."
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"Character is the only secure foundation of the state."
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"I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not know."
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