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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
- No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- The law is reason, free from passion.
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider…
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
- The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for…
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to…
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment…
- Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be…
- They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they…
- The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it…
- Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
- The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.
- But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.
- Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though…
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