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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

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We need religion for religions's sake, morality for morality's sake and art for art's sake.

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All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties ; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of that sovereign justice which is called the State ; but it is not true, it is against all tho laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

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When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.

genius victor cousin

The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

genius victor cousin

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.