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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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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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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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