To love is to will the good of the other.
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We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
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The soul is uninhabited world that only comes to life when god lays his head against us.
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
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When the devil is called god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldiness.
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
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God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show gratitude for what we have received.
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.
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There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
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Our aspect of neighborly love is that we must not merely will our neighbors good, but actually work to bring it about.
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
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How is it they live in such harmony, the billions of stars, when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds?
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The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
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