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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.
Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity.
In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
I think 'Videodrome' was an absolute philosophical masterpiece.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.