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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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