Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Victor Cousin's Popular Quotes

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

- Victor Cousin

Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transpar…

- Victor Cousin

You can only govern men by serving them.

- Victor Cousin

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

- Victor Cousin

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-…

- Victor Cousin

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 justi…

- Victor Cousin

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

- Victor Cousin

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

- Victor Cousin

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

- Victor Cousin