"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
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"People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that such people can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel."
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"All cruelty springs from weakness."
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"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is."
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"Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me"
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"The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest."
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"Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness."
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"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."
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"No man is free who is not master of himself."
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"The law is reason, free from passion."
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"Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying."
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"If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."
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"It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice."
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"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."
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"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
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"Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand."
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"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."
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"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."
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"Life is a constant process of dying."
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"To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal."
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