Quotes 41 till 56 of 56.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
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The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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To bring aid to everyone in need far surpasses the powers and advantage of a private person.... So the case of the poor falls upon society as a whole.
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don't think it worth the trouble to set out in detail here the vacillations of mind that stem from hope and fear - since it follows simply from the definition of these affects that there is no hope without fear
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Source: Ethics
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