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"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb."
"A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand."
"He has committed the crime who profits by it."
"If you judge, investigate."
"Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute."
"The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor."
"I welcome this chance to further strengthen the unbreakable ties between the United States and Israel and to assure you of our commitment to Israel's security and well-being. Israel and America may be thousands of miles apart, but we are philosophical neighbors sharing a strong commitment to democracy and the rule of law. What we hold in common are the bonds of trust and friendship, qualities that in our eyes make Israel a great nation. No people have fought longer, struggled harder, or sacrificed more than yours in order to survive, to grow, and to live in freedom"
"The war in vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing."
"Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison."
"It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage"
"For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight."
"cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened."
"In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be."
"That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it."
"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."
"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."
"The act of dying is one of the acts of life."
"Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers."
"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth."