Quotes 21 till 40 of 56.
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I have taken great care not to deride, bewail, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.
Source: Tractatus Politicus Ch. 1 -
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Source: Ethics -
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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