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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one."
"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
"Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance."
"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."
"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."
"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution."
"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."
"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
"Liberty consists in doing what one desires."
"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk."
"Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor."
"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
"If you think a thing is impossible,you'll only make it impossible."
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
"A great mind becomes a great fortune."
"The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible."
"I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence."