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4485 Philosopher Quotes

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

Lessons Youth Conduct Riper years
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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Justice Sum Moral Duty
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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Man Creature Natural life Memory
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Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible.

Love Obstacles Power Impossible
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With respect to my religious sentiments, I have the firmest assurance and tranquillity. I have faithfully endeavoured to improve the faculties and opportunities God has given me, and I am perfectly easy about the consequences.

Respect Religious God Faithfully
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Revolutions Passion Sober Reason
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Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.

Human Orinates Vices Political
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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

Perform Best Power Think
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Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness

Harhness Relative Fruits Kindness
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Perseverance Principle Influence Desire
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Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

Superior Virtue Fruit Intelligence
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Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide

Law Man Intrests Decide
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There are so many ways in which the heart of man conceals itself from man!

Ways Heart Man Conceals
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The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character

Man Life Maintains Character
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Act up to the magnitude of your destiny.
Act up Magnitude Destiny
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Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions

Man Books Determinations Actions
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Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

Government Injustice Effect Embody
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The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

True Moral Pleasure Happiness
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The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.

Love Dislike Source Virtues
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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Learning Genius Reads Proper
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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

Execution Implies Place Meditation
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God is a being who is himself the cause of his own existence. His prerogative is to perceive before there was anything to be perceived. He is the creator of the universe; He operated upon nothing and turned it into something.

God Existence Creator Universe
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

He True friends Afraid Enemies
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Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.

Love Disgust Hatred Immortal
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
Art Life Enjoy Endure
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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Art Conversation Hearing
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Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills

Words Last forever Durable Eternal
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

Silent People Think Most highly
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Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.

Sacrivices When Repaid Fold
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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

Men Genius Excel Labor
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We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves

Hate Friends Books Opinions
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Rules and models destroy genius and art

Rules Destroy Genuis Art
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Familiarity Breed Contempt Admiration
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poetry Worth Life
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Learning Own Great Reward
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The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Knowledge Wisdom Heart Feel
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Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind and pregnancy of imagination...

Business Education Learning Mind
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The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

Best Conversation Called Thinking
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Only Impeccable Writers Never
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

Friendship Love Heart Mind
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

World Nothing Convinced Errors
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
War Others Peace Themselves
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Truly Great Person Thought
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why,

Smart Observe One Why
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice Child Ignorance
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Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Greatest Purpose Mind Open
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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves

We Disposed Quarrel Ourselves
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Vice Forgiven Hypocrisy Repentance
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Books Souls Secrets Our own
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Man Laughs Weeps Animal
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