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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
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“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.”
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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
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“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
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Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more
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