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- ...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this…
- cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a…
- Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a…
- Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.
- Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and…
- This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little…
- THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
- To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of…
- A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
- All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other…
- Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action…
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- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour