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You can only govern men by serving them.
Victor Cousin / Philosopher
Leadership
Men
Exception
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin / Philosopher
Cousin
Ignorance
Misery
Primary Source
Source
Vices
Primary
Vice
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In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
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Inspirational
Life Changing
Secret
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What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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Philosophy
Merely
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We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.
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Art
Needs
Sake
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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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Beautiful
Cousin
Holy
Way
Useful
Leads
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The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.
Victor Cousin / Philosopher
Heart
Law
Natural Justice
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Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.
Victor Cousin / Philosopher
Demand
Law
Natural Justice
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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
Victor Cousin / Philosopher
History
Home
War
Cousin
Historical
War Home World
Certain Way
Exploited
Export
Sufficiently
Tour
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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.
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Development
Equal
Eternal
Protection
Equal Right
Faculties
Impartial
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Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage.
Victor Cousin / Philosopher
Art
Smile
Giving
Struggle
True Beauty
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Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.
Victor Cousin / Philosopher
Art
Smile
Ethics
Infinite
Morality
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Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give me its natural productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in history:-not accidentally, but necessarily; not at any particular epoch, but in all; in short, -what idea he is called to represent.
Victor Cousin / Philosopher
Men
Country
Wind
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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of that sovereign justice which is called the State ; but it is not true, it is against all tho laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.
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Wise
Men
Cousin
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When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.
Victor Cousin / Philosopher
Philosophical
Philosophy
Race
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