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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.
You're awfully philosophical for a girl that just got busted.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
I think 'Videodrome' was an absolute philosophical masterpiece.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.