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- When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
- The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only…
- I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
- Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is…
- Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
- At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into…
- [When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future…
- What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
- I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs.
- War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men,…
- I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove…
- The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered…
- Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
- I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
- Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
- It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
- The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
- I only see clearly what I remember.
- Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
- We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
- I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I…
- In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state…
- I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything…
- The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
- Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.
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