"Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for."
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"If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself."
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"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
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"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
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"Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
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"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."
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"Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes"
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"You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am"
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"The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being."
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"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
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"Do the right thing because it is right."
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"Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty."
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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
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"But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents."
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"We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
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"A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides."
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"I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life."
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"There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience."
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"The only thing permanent is change."
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"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
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