Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
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The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
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