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- By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
- As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man,…
- [Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in…
- The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire…
- I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one…
- What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided…
- Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it…
- Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can…
- At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them,…
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