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As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to you wherein it consists, I helplessly describe only a type. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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