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Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage.
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Treat humanity, whether in your own person or that of another, always as an end and never merely as a means.
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!
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One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
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There is no great genius without a touch of madness.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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Hope is a waking dream.
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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The courage of truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
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Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
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Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
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The truth is the whole.
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What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
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The real is the rational and the rational is the real.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
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Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
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The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
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