"In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality."
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"There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment."
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"Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits."
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"Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent."
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"The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties."
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"There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism."
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"It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits."
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"Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic."
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"Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable."
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"you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits"
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"There is no limit to suffering."
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"It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again."
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"The superior man limits his achievements."
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"Teach yourself freedom with the same zeal that the world has taught you limits."
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"Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits."
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"It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions."
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"When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless."
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"The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger."
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"It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction."
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"When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits."
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