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" All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. "
Quality
Love
Unhappiness
" All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. "
Difficult
Rare
Things
" Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. "
Power
Ambition
Desire
" Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. "
Be True
You
Well
" Desire is the essence of a man. "
Essence
Desire
Man
" Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. "
Motivational
Weep
Wax
" Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. "
Freedom
Progress
Arts
" He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. "
Consent
Alone
Guidance
" I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion. "
Know
How
Philosophy
" If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. "
Present
You
Want
" I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. "
Human
Understand
Actions
" I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. "
Understand
Actions
Hate
" It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. "
Proud
Imagination
Become
" I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. "
Imagination
Nature
Beautiful
" None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. "
Flattery
First
More
" Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. "
Follow
Effect
Some
" Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. "
Universe
Divine
Exist
" One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. "
Bad
Time
Deaf
" Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. "
Confidence
Mind
Justice
" The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. "
Understand
Virtue
First
" The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. "
Ignorance
Self
Greatest
" The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. "
Human
Free
Understanding
" The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak. "
World
Happier
Men
" Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. "
Humble
Who
Those
" True virtue is life under the direction of reason. "
Life
Reason
True
" Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. "
Conceived
Without
Nothing
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