Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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