In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
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When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
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The Beginning of Philosophy...is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.
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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, But the fear of death and hardship.
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