"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny."
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"The law always limits every power it gives."
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"For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand."
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"The object of the superior man is truth."
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"Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice."
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"It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense."
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"Bad men are full of repentance."
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"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."
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"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
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"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
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"We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable."
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"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."
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"The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute."
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"Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things."
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"Age steals away all things, even the mind."
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"Hug the shore; let others try the deep."
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"Beware of the person of one book."
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"Every guilty person is his own hangman."
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"Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires."
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"True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level."
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