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Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved ...

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Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood...

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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

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Beware of the person of one book.

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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

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Repeticio est mater studiorum.

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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible

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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off

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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

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