"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."
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"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
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"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."
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"Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection."
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"In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?"
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"Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient."
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"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
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"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."
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"The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity."
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"You learn to know a pilot in a storm."
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"To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power."
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"For greed, all nature is too little."
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"He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it."
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"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich."
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"Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us."
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"The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality."
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"What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?"
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"One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away."
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"Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better."
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"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."
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