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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Insults Arguments Employed Wrong
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Born Speak Life Man
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Life begins on the other side of despair.

Life Begins Other side Despair
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life Moment Lose Eternal
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Lost Battle Thinks
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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man Free World Responsible
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We must act out passion before we can feel it.

We Act Passion Feel
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We do not judge the people we love.

We Judge People Love
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Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

Words Treacherous Powerful Think
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If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

Literature Worth Hour Trouble
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Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Man Responsible Nature Choices
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Politics Science Demonstrate Wrong
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Commitment is an act, not a word.
Commitment Act Word
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There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Day Left Dawn Dusk
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Afraid Son Honest Citizen
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Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Happiness Pretty Feel Talk
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Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Law Infraction Liberty
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Reputation is the road to power
Reputation Road Power
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Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Nature Mankind Pain Pleasure
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Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains

Happiness Create Pleasure Pains
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We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

Courtesy Kindness Minds Happiness
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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Power Lawyer Uncertainty Law
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The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Happiness Foundation Morals Legislation
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the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Rarest Human Qualities Consistency
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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Power Government Believe Religion
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Tyranny Anarchy Never Apart
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The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.

Quantity Pleasure Good Poetry
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A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Society Animals Moral Ethical
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All poetry is misrepresentation.

Poetry Misrepresentation
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Right... is the child of law.

Right Child Law
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Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

Difficulties Wiser Nature God
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All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Government Trust Acknowledge
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There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

Pestilence Zeal Religion Morality
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Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes

Law Time Humanity Mantle
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Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Unkind Language Suffering Bosom
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Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

Publicity Good Permanent Evil
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All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil

Punishment Mischief Evil
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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

Vain Interest Community Individual
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Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

Lawyers Truth Win Case
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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Secrecy Conspiracy System Government
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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Age Live Knowledge Perfection
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Truth Happiness Right Wrong
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Lawyers Persons Ignorance Law
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It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Truth Liberates Effort Free
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One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end

Never Afraid Unknown End
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Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay

Tradition Security Mind Decay
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Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Learning Competitive Spirit Ceased
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To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still

Understand Mind Quiet Still
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There can be freedom from fear only when there is self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, which is the ending of fear.

Freedom Fear Self-knowledge Wisdom
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Peace is of the heart, not of the mind. To know peace you have to find out what beauty is.

Peace Heart Mind Beauty
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